Is it possible to turn off the Steering Wheel Sensor?

[BrianJ77]

You shouldn't have to turn it off every time. I turned off the lane keeping aid the day I bought the car, and haven't touched it since.

Plus one here. No issues with mine.

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[npole]

Apart being in the EU, I'm also talking about the "lane centering assist" (that is different than the "simple" driving assist), I also have those "connected" system, when I activate them they "force" certain systems to remain active, I don't know if it makes any difference. However I cannot disable it permanently, I've to press the button on the wheel each time. :(
Between as said, it's just a workaround, I actually LIKE the system and I would like to use it (especially on the highway) ... IF the system would have worked correctly!

 

[drive_55_not]

The stereo mute comes after the 2nd or 3rd popup, right? It’s definitely a bug, I got this on a 1.5 mile stretch of farm to market road, a straightaway and it’s not like I was hands off, but again, it was just coincidentally straight. The thing is, it’s crowned too, so I was making steering input, it just wasn’t enough.

Just curious, Where does your steering wheel set when the car is going straight?

Here's a pic [ Not mine ] but mine was biased to the left by at least that much from the factory and I did get hands off alerts,

After installing cradle lockouts and getting an alignment my wheel is fairly straight and depending on road crown, biased to the right..

I'm not getting any alerts unless I intentionally trigger one by bouncing off the lane markings a few times.

 

[smurfslayer]

My wheel sits dead center. My inner paranoia suggests to me that this got worse after -1 upgrade ago. Most recent didn’t do anything noticeable. I drive the same straight stretch at least 3x per week and have not been getting the audio interrupt or hands on wheel alert and I’m not changing how I drive it.

 

[NegativeMultiplier]

The warning isn't triggered by grip strength, or lack thereof. It's triggered if the car doesn't detect any human steering input for several seconds at a time.

Just rotate the wheel one degree towards whichever side of the lane is further away, and it'll go away. Bonus points if you can safely rotate it one degree in the opposite direction of what lane assist is trying to do.

 

[npole]

That is the reason i had to disable it: going on the highway it was coming up every minute or so, despite my hands firmly on the wheel and actually driving the car (if the road is perfectly straight and the car is going straight i won't rotate the wheel), forcing me to do small movements within the lane (left-right), like a drunk driver, it wasn't only annoying but actually dangerous. It's super-bugged.

 

[Ciulster]

My guess is it's either different software tuning for different markets or maybe the steering angle sensor is faulty/undersensitive. I've heard a few different people now complain about the alert constantly going off in the span of a few miles.

Mine remembers if it is turned on or off, and for example I have to go "hands free" and let the system correct me from going over the line 3 or 4 times (about 30 seconds of hands on wheel just in case, but no input) before it will even warn me once. If anything my system is under sensitive compared to most.

Not sure if there is anything that can be done in the case of an oversensitive system aside from bugging the dealer and see if they can do diagnostics on the steering angle sensor or other system components.

 

[npole]

Are you talking about the lane keeping, or the lane centering? The lane centering won't drive your car to the line at all, and it's a different thing, and it has different level of alerts (about the hands on the wheel).

 

[clfreemn]

Very likely it turns back on because it is set in a “personal profile”. Nice feature, but it has some unexpected issues.

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