Fell asleep at the wheel.

[Roman Canadian]

Only huge safety issue is a grow man knowing he can’t be responsible and stay awake while driving.
These features are nice and probably work for the mid afternoon zone out while driving.
Best safety feature for you is probably a bag of coke before the drive home.
You are gonna kill someone. Your fault if it is just you and your an adult. But what about others?

Bullshit.... have you even read what this thread is about?

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[Roman Canadian]

I'm just amazed at some of the people who comment on the nonsense about shifting blame to the car.

It looks like this: a person drives at night, switches on the headlights, and they don't work! What he is trying to say is that the car's headlights don't work at night! Instead of discussing how the headlights work, people write, ‘Why did you drive at night?’, - ‘You shouldn't drive at night’, - ‘Don't blame the headlights, it's your fault’, - ‘It's your fault because you wanted to drive at night’.

 

[Roman Canadian]

How do you know what else it was trying to do while you were asleep if you were asleep? How do you know the seat belt dinger wasn't going off for 10 minutes straight and then it turned off and the absence of it is what woke you up?

I don't know about this! I created this thread to find out about it. Don't you get it yet?

 

[Roman Canadian]

That's why there is a sound option

What's that sound? Is that the sound of a drop down message? Did you watch the video in the first post, what sound does the VW or AUDI make?

 

[Robot-Wrangler]

I'm glad you are unharmed. I'm glad that I ordered the same system as I work 12hr night shift and have a 104 mile daily commute.

This NHTSA link looks fishy to me though:

 

[Ranch]

Your title of this thread stated that you fell asleep at the wheel...

Thanks for stating this.

For some reason the OP is attacking posters who are saying what is obvious.

 

[Roman Canadian]

Thanks for stating this.

For some reason the OP is attacking posters who are saying what is obvious.

The author wants to convey the obvious to the reader - there is no “sleeping driver” system in the car. But obvious, not many people are interested in this. Obviously, most people want to talk about anything but a useless feature.

 

[inline_five]

What's that sound? Is that the sound of a drop down message? Did you watch the video in the first post, what sound does the VW or AUDI make?

It's a beep-boop sort of sound. I didn't watch the video. I turned it on in my Maverick when I added the LKA stalk mod, but turned it off as it was annoying (the sound). The actual LKA did help in my night time drives on the highway and saved me once.

I've since added lane centering and it's far better in that it actually maintains lane control.

 

[Roman Canadian]

beep-boop

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[Snox801]

Bullshit.... have you even read what this thread is about?

Yes it’s about you falling asleep and then wondering why your truck didn’t wake you up.
In your eye the screen flashing a wasting was not enough. Hence why I said what I said.

 

[Snox801]

I'm just amazed at some of the people who comment on the nonsense about shifting blame to the car.

It looks like this: a person drives at night, switches on the headlights, and they don't work! What he is trying to say is that the car's headlights don't work at night! Instead of discussing how the headlights work, people write, ‘Why did you drive at night?’, - ‘You shouldn't drive at night’, - ‘Don't blame the headlights, it's your fault’, - ‘It's your fault because you wanted to drive at night’.

Have you even read the posts? Maybe you didn’t mean it that way but it is coming off as you blaming the truck for not having “enough” to wake you up.
I read it as “ hey I fell asleep and my stupid truck didn’t wake me up”

Seems the system worked fine. It clearly knew you were asleep hence the warning. You clearly state what good is that? So you assume it’s not enough. So it’s not even in the same ballpark as headlights don’t work.
Your point you think you are trying to make about others pointing that out is way off.
It is more like, Hey I’m going out at night for a drive. I turned my headlights on and just got a faint light but couldn’t see anything. Stupid ford needs to put a light bar and more lights on my truck.
Or you it could be that you had just the fog lights on.
Best case scenario you do t have the settings for the “level” of wake-up correct worst case you are complaining about it not being enough.

 

[Snox801]

The author wants to convey the obvious to the reader - there is no “sleeping driver” system in the car. But obvious, not many people are interested in this. Obviously, most people want to talk about anything but a useless feature.

Only problem is that system seems to be in the car. Hence the warning lights. Problem is YOU don’t think it’s enough.
I can say that anything that pops up on the dash startles me. So if that happens to some they see it and think shit I’m tired I need a break. Happens all the time in my other truck. Little picture of a coffee pops up. As a reminder you are getting sleepy. It may not be enough of what you want but you are acting like the system is faulty.

 

[BouseBill]

I wondered what the "lil Nanny Truck" would do if I did not respond to her commands while driving to keep your hands on the wheel.

We have a 22 mile stretch of straight road not to far from us, not the slightest curve in the whole 22 miles. I had cruse control and lane centering on then took my hands off the wheel and let her bitch. After about the second warning the brakes came on and we started to slow down. I didn't want to came to a complete stop so I took command of the vehicle again.
After reading post #14 Now I know what would have happened.

P.S. I told my insurance lady about all the features of "Lil Nanny Truck" and she said, damn I'd never own anything like that" . I warned her (my insurance lady) that if I ever get in an accident and Nanny truck shows all my wrong doings, I piss her off every day I'm driving. (Always in a safe environment of course

 

[Aherpa]

Worked for 12 hours + 3 hours on the road, and as a result, I passed out for a while. When I woke up, I had no idea how long I had been driving like that. I didn't wake up to any noises—I woke up on my own. The Maverick was still holding the line on the freeway. I took a picture of what was on the screen.

Turns out the driver sleep-safety feature isn't actually implemented. You just get a screen that says, "You're asleep." Why even have this function if it doesn't emit any alerts and just quietly displays a message? There's no siren, music doesn't turn off, car doesn't stop, emergency lights don't come on - just gurgling something.. I was simply notified that I was asleep. The Lane-Keeping System saved me.

I opened up the ford and volkswagen video clips. An 11 year old video clip where Ford presents their system as a message - “take a coffee break”.


The 7 year old video is the same - just as simple a message with a cup of coffee.


I was shocked Ford doesn't have the technology to do anything but put the message on the screen?

Look at how Volkswagen solved this problem.


Audi


What do you think about this? Thanks!

Maybe the 'driver asleep' feature is also like the 'collision alert system' in that it not only needs to be turn on, but it also needs to be configured about what to do. The collision alert system on my Lariat is able to either just warn or to actually do something, like braking.
I have not looked at the driver asleep mode settings, just making a suggestion.

I am glad I only had the collision alert set to 'warn' on my truck because I meet an 18 wheeler on 2-lane highway and as I got to the end of his trailer, the anti collision alert went off . . . for nothing. There was traffic behind me so I'm glad the truck did not do a panic braking stunt or I would have joined the rear ended crowd.

 

[bobbyd454]

How does your advice relate to the topic? Where did you get the information that I was tired? For me a 12 hour day is the norm, I work like that almost every day during certain seasons. Does your post help to solve the issue I raised?

Only problem there is, is you knowing you are tired aand could fall to sleep, endangering others while doing so. You blame the truck for now waking you up in some sort of way, yet take no blame for falling to sleep. You don't need to be driving with that attitude.

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