Change lane keep to lane centering?

[ChillinDylan]

Hey all, new member here. I’ve had my S650 since last September, love it. I’ve looked for this and read through a lot of these Forscan threads seeing what people have done with it so far. I’ve used it on my 15 F-250 to upgrade to the lux cluster and add keys+remote start as well as change settings so I’m not completely new to Forscan. Like the title says I’m wondering if anyone has found anything that would change the way the lane keep works to lane centering? I have not hooked Forscan up on my S650 yet to look myself, I know there’s going to be a lot a lot of stuff to look through. Wanted to ask here first in case someone can point me in the right direction or be able to say for sure yay/nay on whether it’s in there. One of my jobs company vehicles is a 24 Bronco sport outer banks and it is set up as lane centering and does not visually appear to have a different camera in the windshield or any more bumper sensors, so I believe it’s mostly a configuration thing.

P.S to clarify in case of confusion: Currently the car is configured to perform lane keep functions, which is like bumpers on a bowling alley. It will give indication and minimal assistance to simply try to keep you vaguely on the road. It’s essentially only actively doing something when you get close to the edges/lines.
Lane centering is continuously active to keep you in the center of the lane, not allowing you to “drift” towards the edges of the lane/road. In case you’re reaching for something or looking at something out the window for a second lane centering will actually take the turn for you from the moment the lines start to turn, not just sort of kind of half ass attempt to turn at the last second as you’re about to go off the edge of the road. It allows you to relax a little more on long road trips which I do frequently in my car. It also just generally works better.

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[DT-GT]

I have not seen anything on the forums in the past several years, but would be interesting to see difference.

For me I almost never use this option. I like to drive backroads for as much of my driving as possible, including local and cross-country driving. So most of the time my hands are turning the steering wheel a lot!!! So much fun!

 

[Frogdog1]

Can't answer your question. I would rather have not paid for or have this function at all.

 

[ChillinDylan]

I have not seen anything on the forums in the past several years, but would be interesting to see difference.

For me I almost never use this option. I like to drive backroads for as much of my driving as possible, including local and cross-country driving. So most of the time my hands are turning the steering wheel a lot!!! So much fun!

I agree I love to drive the back country windy roads and be connected with the car. However I do like to take my wife and son on road trips as well, and for about 8 months out of the year I will be driving 7 hours one way to and from where I work for my 3 week rotations. I’ve already driven it back and forth several times and I love how comfortable it is, but it would be nice to be able to relax a little more and not have to worry about the lane keep randomly not doing anything at all as lane keep seems to only work if it’s clearly detecting both lines whereas lane centering(maybe it’s also called adaptive steering) seems to be able to work at least briefly off of one line on the road so it’s not as affected by on and off ramps creating gaps in the edge lines

 

[DT-GT]

Ford engineers did not put the BlueCruise system in our Mustangs for some reason!

 

[timuh60]

I would love to see if someone can do this. I use a Comma 3X device in my 23' Ram 1500 to do the same thing. Its great on some of the longer straight boring roads. Unfortunately, Comma doesn't work on the new ones due to upgrading the bus (or something like that).

 

[Mustangman2016]

Fun fact the automatic s650’s have the lane centering available. I’ve been looking into this for about a year now. Best information that I’ve gathered is that ford tied the lane centering assist to the traffic stop and go system which is also only available on the auto. Obviously the stop and go makes sense because of the transmission but I really don’t understand why lane centering can’t be on the manual. The premium already has the lane keep assist which moves the wheel when leaving the lane so it clearly already has the technology. I’ll keep looking into it but for now there’s seemingly no way as it’s locked to the transmission.

 

[LouG]

Lane assist is the first thing I turn off. Who wants a nanny to butt in when you're setting up a corner entry/exit?
Without trying to offend, anyone who relies on that should consider not driving.

 

[Mustangman2016]

Imo the only use case for lane centering assist is for driving on a long straight highway for 60+ miles, which I do very often. I’m not aways in the mood for speeding in a straight line. Lane KEEP assist is usually pretty useless so I turn it off too. But trust me I don’t think anyone who bought a manual mustang is “relying” on it lol especially not anywhere that you’d be doing backroads or spirited driving.

 

[GrabThatBlue]

I have lane keeping and lane centering and sometimes I use it like yesterday after a long drive back on the highway.

Lane centering is only working if you use adaptive cruise control. Otherwise you will only have lane keeping, which is indeed a feature that ping pongs you from the left to the right.

 

[Yamazuki]

Lane centering is only working if you use adaptive cruise control. Otherwise you will only have lane keeping, which is indeed a feature that ping pongs you from the left to the right.

Okay, so you're saying that...

If I'm driving 60mph (100km/h) without adaptive cruise control (aka: my foot is controlling my speed), if I turn on lane assist and allow the car to get too close to a solid line, I'm going to get lane keeping (ping pong effect). But if I then turn on adaptive cruise control, it switches to lane centering, and will now try to keep the car in the center of the lane rather than ping ponging off the white line?

 

[GrabThatBlue]

Okay, so you're saying that...

If I'm driving 60mph (100km/h) without adaptive cruise control (aka: my foot is controlling my speed), if I turn on lane assist and allow the car to get too close to a solid line, I'm going to get lane keeping (ping pong effect). But if I then turn on adaptive cruise control, it switches to lane centering, and will now try to keep the car in the center of the lane rather than ping ponging off the white line?

At least that's how mine works. Mine takes even sharp corners by itself staying completely in the center.

 

[Yamazuki]

At least that's how mine works. Mine takes even sharp corners by itself staying completely in the center.

I guess I have some experimenting to do next time I decide to go for a drive!

 

[Cipis]

Okay, so you're saying that...

If I'm driving 60mph (100km/h) without adaptive cruise control (aka: my foot is controlling my speed), if I turn on lane assist and allow the car to get too close to a solid line, I'm going to get lane keeping (ping pong effect). But if I then turn on adaptive cruise control, it switches to lane centering, and will now try to keep the car in the center of the lane rather than ping ponging off the white line?

You have to first turn it on in settings under driver assist, check the column lane centering. Than lane assist on steering wheel will be also keeping you lane centering.

 

[Mustangman2016]

I guess I have some experimenting to do next time I decide to go for a drive!

It also only exists on automatic transmission cars

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