2022 Ford F-150 Lightning

Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by Rebelgecko on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:18PM (#27236963)

At least for my use cases, I think Ford actually has an edge over Autopilot. Any car with adaptive cruise control and autosteering is gonna behave identically to a Tesla with autopilot for 99% of the time behind the wheel. Ford doesn't do lane changes or summoning, but from what I've seen both of those features have some jank with Tesla and I wouldn't use them.

The big pro of Ford's system is that on some highways/freeways the cruise control is actually hands free. IIRC Teslas have torque sensors in the steering wheel to make sure that your hands don't wander.

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Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by leesec on Friday May 21, 2021 @01:50PM (#27237430)

"Any car with adaptive cruise control and autosteering is gonna behave identically to a Tesla with autopilot for 99% of the time behind the wheel."

This isn't even close to true. Most LKAS and ADAS systems will only last a few seconds before they require human intervention. It is not at all the same experience.

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Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by Rebelgecko on Friday May 21, 2021 @05:45PM (#27240358)

I'm not sure about most systems, but whatever Subaru puts in their cars works pretty well in my experience. It has a little trouble on windy mountain roads when the shoulder isn't well marked (it doesn't drive off a cliff or anything, but the autosteer disengages), but on the freeway I can usually go 10+ minutes without any manual interaction.

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Re:2022 Ford F-150 Lightning by ummonk on Friday May 21, 2021 @02:15PM (#27237771)

Autosteering / lane-centering (which is increasingly standard in driver assistance technology, including bluecruise which will be available on this truck) is not the same as lane-keep assist.

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