Turn off cruise control

[fightforfood247]

Hey brothas. While doing the adaptive cruise control it’s a very short window where you can’t have your hands on the steering wheel.

Seeing how yall mitigate that?

I’ve read some dudes tie a weight to the
steering wheel to keep alarm off. Im not looking to just never touch the steering wheel ever and get into some safety stuff. However, Tacomas no hands seems incredibly short and just wanting more time. Maybe there’s a way to turn it off completely.

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[Sagebrush]

Hey brothas. While doing the adaptive cruise control it’s a very short window where you can’t have your hands on the steering wheel.

That's not the Adaptive Cruise Control. It's Lane Assist. And isn't it somewhere around 15 seconds?

Me? I'd prefer people keep their hands on the wheel...

 

[fightforfood247]

That's not the Adaptive Cruise Control. It's Lane Assist. And isn't it somewhere around 15 seconds?

Me? I'd prefer people keep their hands on the wheel...

Yes you’re correct it is lane assist. I would say 10-20 seconds is a correct estimate. I’m not looking for seconds but minutes or Indef.

 

[Dansflhti]

You can turn it off completely with the Lane Keep Assist button to the right of the Cruise enable button on the right spoke of the steering wheel.

 

[Pootklopp]

Hey brothas. While doing the adaptive cruise control it’s a very short window where you can’t have your hands on the steering wheel.

Seeing how yall mitigate that?

I’ve read some dudes tie a weight to the
steering wheel to keep alarm off. Im not looking to just never touch the steering wheel ever and get into some safety stuff. However, Tacomas no hands seems incredibly short and just wanting more time. Maybe there’s a way to turn it off completely.

Working as intended, keep a hand on the wheel.

 

[Tacoflvrd]

I get really annoyed with it. My hands are always on the wheel and it will still beep at me and make me apply more pressure to the wheel.

 

[trailhunger]

I drove my Trailhunter 600mi from Vegas to Colorado when I took delivery. Many stretches of highway lane assist ran for 2-6 minutes some straightaways and longer curves w/good visibility it ran ~10min uninterrupted.

Couple takeaways:

-cresting over hills / sun glare / poorly painted lines / semi trucks blocking viz / hash-marked exit ramps / etc - all these things affect it. Sometimes it gets it right under adversity from items listed above, but much of the time it’s prudent and requires you to takeover.

- in the city just running adaptive cruise without lane assist - I’ve found to be a better driving experience. If I didn’t care about fuel economy to hell with adaptive cruise / run sport mode and send it. But I currently do because I bought a “hybrid” and am hellbent on seeing what the upper end of my range tops out at. As a result I believe the benefits of eco mode are expressed through the adaptive cruise feature esp in the city. The gas pedal on these trucks really want to open that turbo up.

EDIT: also curious about that ‘tug’ toward exit ramps: if I ran Toyota’s navigational system with a set route, would the lane trace improve? I only use Apple Maps currently. But I’d like to know if Toyota’s GPS meshes better w/its lane assist tech…

 

[bitflogger]

My perspective is from losing a family member in an accident because others messed up and were behaving badly. Keep your hands on the wheel.

Even with a fantastic record and experience driving heavy haul I don't want any risk of messing up so the safety suite in the 4th gen was a significant part of why I made the purchase. The defaults seem plenty find if I have a moment of what I'll call distraction or change for doing something.

Now with few months and few thousand miles I'm very happy with the Toyota latest. This includes experience with its competitors and other systems.

 

[soupy1234]

Working as intended, keep a hand on the wheel.

Or at least let us know your travel plans so that we can stay off the roads while you are nearby.

 

[Sagebrush]

Toyota’s legal team isn’t going to allow a “driver” to sit without his hands on the wheel.

 

[SonoranSurvivalist]

I get really annoyed with it. My hands are always on the wheel and it will still beep at me and make me apply more pressure to the wheel.

It's left/right tension that keeps the alarm off and not pressure on the wheel.

 

[Tacoflvrd]

It's left/right tension that keeps the alarm off and not pressure on the wheel.

I’m aware but who the hell wants to constantly apply tension to one side of the wheel the whole time they drive?

 

[SonoranSurvivalist]

I find just having my hand holding onto and my arm hanging is enough to keep the bells off as long as I'm holding the side and not center.

 

[nyydynasty]

are we really discussing how to bypass an alert to keep your hands on the wheel? What are we doing here?? Keep your damn hands on the wheel. I really hope I'm not driving near you when you decide you want to keep your hands off the wheel while doing something else. That's called being a passenger, not a driver. You should try it some time.

These are the threads that need to be locked.

 

[fightforfood247]

I love the ones saying keep hands on the wheel lol. I do keep my hand on the wheel and a lot of times is not enough motion or pressure to signal to the truck my hand is on the wheel. I’m looking to not have to jerk the steering wheel every 5 mins because I’m on a straight highway and do not need to move the steering wheel.

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