Lightning Safety Features

[Zman9745]

Does anyone else find the built in safety features of the Lightning annoying. I currently have deselected all of them and am trying to figure out how to disable the feature of automatically putting the car in park when you open the door. I have had the truck lock up the brakes several times when it thought that an accident was inevitable when I was no way near hitting anything.

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[Henry Ford]

I'm actually a big fan of safety. I think a better approach to disabling safety features is learning how they work and integrating them into the way you use your vehicle.

For instance, a lot of reasons you might open the door with the vehicle in gear can be replaced by cameras.

 

[RickKeen]

I found the reverse brake assist super annoying once when attempting to back a trailer that had bad lights and the truck did not detect it was hitched. Truck kept thinking the trailer itself was something it was about to hit and stopping. It felt like I WAS backing into something. I actually got out and looked to see if I was hitting something with the trailer. Once I figured out what was happening it took a few more minutes to find the menu to disable it.

 

[Scorpio3d]

I'm actually a big fan of safety. I think a better approach to disabling safety features is learning how they work and integrating them into the way you use your vehicle.

For instance, a lot of reasons you might open the door with the vehicle in gear can be replaced by cameras.

Or you can roll down your window!

 

[Heliian]

trailer. Once I figured out what was happening it took a few more minutes to find the menu to disable it.

On the sync 4a(15" screen), the sensor override is right on the camera view when in reverse, was there a selection on your 12"?

 

[Whistler]

Automatically locking the parking brake when a door is ajar is a feature I’d think would be best defaulted to off, and available for those who appreciate nanny-like controls.

Does anyone else find the built in safety features of the Lightning annoying. I currently have deselected all of them and am trying to figure out how to disable the feature of automatically putting the car in park when you open the door. I have had the truck lock up the brakes several times when it thought that an accident was inevitable when I was no way near hitting anything.

 

[Firn]

Annoying? No. Mostly because I rarely ever experiance them.

If things like lane departure and pre-collision are happening to you frequently that isn't a good sign.

 

[RickLightning]

Have put over 40,000 miles on Mach-Es and Lightning, and have never experienced brakes being applied when the system thought an accident was inevitable. Not one time.​

 

[Henry Ford]

Have put over 40,000 miles on Mach-Es and Lightning, and have never experienced brakes being applied when the system thought an accident was inevitable. Not one time.​

This makes sense because Automatic Emergency Braking is designed to reduce the severity of a collision not to prevent a collision.

 

[Henry Ford]

Automatically locking the parking brake when a door is ajar is a feature I’d think would be best defaulted to off, and available for those who appreciate nanny-like controls.

The feature exists to prevent people from running themselves over. It sort of defeats the purpose if you have to remember to turn it on prior putting yourself in danger.

 

[Zprime29]

Haven't disabled anything. Frunk still beeps, beeps when I back up, beeps when I open the door (that one I *might* dump), and I've had it move to park on me several times. Every time, I intended for it to be in park but had mistakenly put it in drive. Usually when I botch parking and have to 15 point maneuver into place. I like it.

I've become so accustomed to the beeps on the frunk that when I close the back of my wife's XC90 it's actually alarming how fast it closes and without a peep. All the beeps were kinda annoying at first, I barely notice them now. The nice thing is that other people notice them, so less risk of running over someone. I can live with it.

 

[Firn]

Haven't disabled anything. Frunk still beeps, beeps when I back up, beeps when I open the door (that one I *might* dump), and I've had it move to park on me several times. Every time, I intended for it to be in park but had mistakenly put it in drive. Usually when I botch parking and have to 15 point maneuver into place. I like it.

I've become so accustomed to the beeps on the frunk that when I close the back of my wife's XC90 it's actually alarming how fast it closes and without a peep. All the beeps were kinda annoying at first, I barely notice them now. The nice thing is that other people notice them, so less risk of running over someone. I can live with it.

These arguments against safety features always feel to me like the compliant about having to wear a seatbelt. Instead of spending the time to become accustomed to it and having what is in every measure a better method, which millions of others have done, instead they continuously reinforce to themselves how much they hate it.

With a VERY small mindset change you can one, not have to deal with tricking the seatbelt or fighting the chime, and two, VERY SIGNIFICANTLY decrease your risk of injury. Instead, they continuously tell themselves how much they hate it, develop a system where the cure is worse than the symptom, and have an objectively WORSE outcome.


The other side of this is I think a lot of people are actually very bad drivers, they just tell themselves they are not, and now when all these chimes and warnings go off all the time it points out how bad they are. They don't want to be reminded of that so its the "nanny state" manipulating them so they can avoid acknowledging they are actually just a bad driver.

 

[Lytning]

I'm actually a big fan of safety. I think a better approach to disabling safety features is learning how they work and integrating them into the way you use your vehicle.

For instance, a lot of reasons you might open the door with the vehicle in gear can be replaced by cameras.

As a young Engineer working at a steel fabrication business pursuing authorization to manufacture ASME Code Pressure Vessels, a Senior Engineer from the National Board visited to inspect our shop and Quality Control system. When all was successfully inspected and approved, just before he departed, he handed me his business card. He looked me in the eye and said, "Young man, just remember that every word of the ASME Code is there as a result of someone getting killed or seriously injured in a pressure vessel failure. If you don't understand anything, or question why it is important, call me at the number on this card." His advice served me very well for my wonderful career in Engineering.

I believe it would be vitally important to re-enable every disabled safety feature before selling your vehicle. Else, in addition to possibly killing or injuring innocent people, it may result in the seller becoming very poor and lawyers becoming very rich if proven that the seller of a vehicle intentionally disabled safety features and did not advise the purchaser of those modifications. Every safety device on a vehicle is there as a result of someone getting killed or seriously injured.

 

[Henry Ford]

Every safety device on a vehicle is there as a result of someone getting killed or seriously injured.

While I agree with your premise, I submit "Full View Not Available" as an example of a safety device which is not a result of someone getting killed or seriously injured.

Some people are saying it was put there by an engineer whose wife took the trailer manufacturing business with her in the divorce. Even the sight of a trailer reminds him of his lost love and the life he could have had sipping champagne while jet setting to trailer industry conferences around the world. What sick irony that his first assignment after accepting a software engineering job at Ford was to design a camera view so customers could look at their trailers while under way. The pain was too much so he blocked out the view of the trailer with a sign that read, "Full View Not Available." The missing view representative of the hole in his heart. If he can't look at trailers, no one can look at trailers.

It's really the only explanation that makes sense.

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