Hands on steering wheel warning

[Quarktasche]

I was recently driving with a friend and got hit over and over and over again with this warning accompanied with annoying beeping. At some point it was all red and blinking. My hands were never off the wheel.
However, the warning never showed up when I was driving solo and my hands were in fact off the wheel.

Is that system really that bad? Is it possible to disable it with forscan? I really don't need to be lectured by my car about what I can or cannot do.

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[DarkHorsePremium]

Greetings ,
It has nothing to do with hands on steering wheel pressure. It has to do with movement.

You can't disable just the warning if you have the driving assist features enabled. You have to jog the wheel a few degrees. Bugs me too. 🫩

 

[Schullz]

I was recently driving with a friend and got hit over and over and over again with this warning accompanied with annoying beeping. At some point it was all red and blinking. My hands were never off the wheel.
However, the warning never showed up when I was driving solo and my hands were in fact off the wheel.

Is that system really that bad? Is it possible to disable it with forscan? I really don't need to be lectured by my car about what I can or cannot do.

No, you cannot disable the "Keep Hands on Steering Wheel" safety prompt using FORScan, as it is baked deep into Ford's core safety modules and federal compliance programming.

 

[AZ_Ryan]

Greetings ,
It has nothing to do with hands on steering wheel pressure. It has to do with movement.

You can't disable just the warning if you have the driving assist features enabled. You have to jog the wheel a few degrees. Bugs me too. 🫩

I believe it has to do with weight on the steering wheel not movement. You can't lightly touch the wheel or hold it from the bottom.

 

[Starship Enterprise]

Disable every driving assist. But I read elsewhere that you can't do that in European countries?

 

[MAT1955]

We have discussed this before and yes, it is really annoying. I get warnings on my screen a lot. I hold the wheel by the bottom. What worries me is a concern that the warnings are being logged and/or shared with Ford and my insurance provider.

 

[Starship Enterprise]

These car nanny systems are only going to get worse in future years.

 

[GooberDH]

You can toggle it in the menus unless you're not in the US and non-US cars are different. I think it's somewhere in Features from the home screen.

 

[D/\rK•650]

It depends on which safety nanny your referring to. The hands on wheel comes on when using the auto drive lane centering option. There is also a red screen popup that I think can be turned off called collision avoidance warning indicators. Turn off all the assist features. I think for non US it can be addressed in Forscan.

 

[fishinrich]

I have mine turned off.

Seems like they came up with this for people who DWI.

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