Lane Keeping System Observations,

[Cherokee]

3 days a week I drive the same 4 lane to and from work. Never any traffic.
In 15 miles, one stop light. Zah !

The road meanders from 1500 ft above sea level to 2100

Lane keeping system on over a one month average I get 22.5-23.5 mpg’s.
Mind you my engine is not broken in yet.

System off I’m getting 24.5-25.5 mpg.
Consistently.
It cancels when a turn lane shows up.
Every now and then I can feel the tires scrubbing speed as it randomly wanders side to side for a few hundred feet.

Eating tires,
Burning more gas,
Struggling to stay focused,
All the while diminishing our critical driving skills.

That’s it, I will never try and use it for anything more than a way to text and pick my nose at the same time

You may as well mute me.

Ford, you did a pretty shitty Job on this,
2026 Tremor

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[icegradner]

Nannies have a way of taking the good things in life and making them worse. Glad I skipped co-pilot 360.

 

[usedtobef150]

I disagree. I think it's much improved from the very same system that was in my 2021 f-150. I no longer have to worry about the system being too close to the centre stripe; however I can no longer dismiss the warning by pressing the follow distance button.

Really wish it had a capacitive steering wheel - my hands are on the wheel! I also wish it would take it easy in stop and go; not being so aggressive once space has opened up in front of me.

All of that being said, I just cruised 700 miles on it in the last two days and it's really quite solid at lane centering and following curves. I'm not convinced it uses more fuel; I averaged a hand calculated 33mpg in my Lobo this trip at 75mph.

 

[Cancunbadlands]

I remember when you can drive a stick car for real
Without the nanny thing

 

[El Kabong]

I tried it for about a week for my normal runs to and from town. I found it to be annoying.

Might be useful for long highway drives.

 

[DoLoJo]

I’ve tried it in all kinds of different driving scenarios and found it terrible (and scary) on two-lane roads and with any amount of start and stop driving or traffic. I, too, wish there was some way to adjust the rate of acceleration and braking, as the default programming seems to be to alternately floor it and slam on brakes. I also hate that if a car in front of you pulls over or makes a right turn, it will slam on brakes and then continue to decelerate until after you have passed the other car, even though it is no longer in your path of travel. It’s really bad. I’ve heard that changing the driving mode to eco will help with the hard acceleration, but I don’t think it would make a difference with the braking so I haven’t tried it.

On the other hand, on multi-lane, limited-access, rural highways and interstates, it’s much better. I actually get a couple of MPG better using it than in manual driving on the same routes. However some adjustments need to be made to the steering wheel sensor that causes that stupid message about putting your hands on the steering wheel to pop up on the dash. I’ve found when driving straight stretches of road, when no input is needed, the stupid message will pop up every 15-20 seconds and you have to slightly turn the steering wheel a bit to get the warning to go away. This is annoying and dangerous. I agree that Ford needs to refine this system a bit more before it can truly be considered a driving aid. That being said, I’ll continue to use it on long stretches of rural interstate driving.

 

[Pointyears]

3 days a week I drive the same 4 lane to and from work. Never any traffic.
In 15 miles, one stop light. Zah !

The road meanders from 1500 ft above sea level to 2100

Lane keeping system on over a one month average I get 22.5-23.5 mpg’s

System off I get 24.5-25.5 mpg.
Consistently.
Every now and then I can feel the tires scrubbing speed,
Eating tires,
Burning more gas,
Struggling to stay focused,
All the while diminishing our critical driving skills.

That’s it, I will never try and use it for anything more than a way to text and pick my nose at the same time

You may as well mute me.

Ford, you did a pretty shitty Job on this,
2026 Tremor

Since when does lane keeping control speed in addition to steering? The former is part of the adaptive cruise control?

 

[KO Stradivarius]

Fate comes a-knockin', doors start lockin'
Your old-time connection change your direction
Ain't gonna change it, can't rearrange it
Can't stand the pain when it's all the same to you, my friend

 

[BK007]

Idk... I see no difference in MPG's with it on or off.....

 

[MavStangVa]

I believe @Cherokee succinctly said LANE KEEPING not Adaptive Cruise Control. I don't know about the mpg difference but I don't like the lane CENTERING that is part of ACC unless I am on a fairly empty interstate stretch. On 2 lane roads it does seem to be scrubbing the tires. Lane keeping (activated on the end of the stalk) is available even if cruise is off and works well.

 

[KO Stradivarius]

I believe @Cherokee succinctly said LANE KEEPING not Adaptive Cruise Control. I don't know about the mpg difference but I don't like the lane CENTERING that is part of ACC unless I am on a fairly empty interstate stretch. On 2 lane roads it does seem to be scrubbing the tires. Lane keeping (activated on the end of the stalk) is available even if cruise is off and works well.

We are on different pages. I don’t think Mav Lane Keeping works well at all. It doesn’t keep me in the lane. It only makes minor corrections.

I have a 2020 Escape with ACC and it keeps me in the lane very well, it practically drives the car, but you gotta steer some or it will chastise you. But not sure about the Mav ACC or fuel economy though.

 

[Mavster Mechanic]

Lane keeping SUCKS on my 22.

It's like a game of ping pong. Or more appropriately, bumper bowling.
It does NOTHING until I cross over the right line or left line THEN over corrects.

It's a nightmare on zig-zag roads. I am constantly arm wrestling it on zig zag roads so off is the default. It's NOT chewing up tires. That's just silly. That implies you think one wheel is turning more than the other. That should be impossible. It may use more battery power.

The only thing it does is give me a 50/50 shot if I should fall asleep on a perfectly straight section. The "do do / do do / do do alarm after 15 seconds might wake me up.

I find it just above useless.
I had it recalibrated earlier this year.
Nothing improved.

Wife's Toyota does much better.
Meh. It's bottom of the lineup. Entry level vehicle.

 

[Cherokee]

I use adaptive CC,
In my not so humble opinion it works pretty well.

DoLojo said :
“ I’ve heard that changing the driving mode to eco will help with the hard acceleration, but I don’t think it would make a difference with the braking so I haven’t tried it.”

My gearing in my Tremor lets me use Eco without it making my engine feel weak or feel like it needs a tune up.

I think, maybe, not sure, yeah I think so,

Eco softens the acceleration overall so
I am perceiving a bit less
‘Yank on it acceleration’

I also think, maybe that reducing following distance to three bars from four helps soften the CC reactions or should I say over reaction.

 

[Random881]

I turned off lane keeping as soon as I got mine. The only "version" of it that I like keeping on is where it gently vibrates the steering wheel when you go over the lines.

 

[DoLoJo]

Since when does lane keeping control speed in addition to steering? The former is part of the adaptive cruise control?

I generally only use the lane centering feature in conjunction with the adaptive cruise control. Sorry for the confusion.

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