What are these two lines under speedometer?

[Fasteddiec]

I use them to alert me, when green it is safe to jump to light speed...

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[hellohello123]

I use them to alert me, when green it is safe to jump to light speed...

when I first saw them in green, i certainly had a "back to the future" moment

 

[K4fxd]

You are talking to a guy whose first car had the high beam switch on the floor. Can you imagine the experience when I needed to put on the highs and am stomping everywhere looking for the switch? Windshield wipers was a slide switch. Found that out the hard way too. Lights use to be a knob on the dash to pull. Next it went to a stalk for many years and now, the Mustang has it back on the dash. Go figure.

Yea, and instead of stupid pictures each knob or switch had the word printed under it.

IE Wipers, Lights, Fan, Hot........

I still miss the high beam being on the floor

 

[MR YUK]

I have found that unless you turn your directional light on you will get a warning if you get too near the line. It also will pick up the tar line between lanes. This can be a problem if your lane is merging into another lane that has such a tar line.

 

[Bikeman315]

I have found that unless you turn your directional light on you will get a warning if you get too near the line. It also will pick up the tar line between lanes. This can be a problem if your lane is merging into another lane that has such a tar line.

I always avoid roads with tar lines.

 

[WD Pro]

I might leave mine on as I like the picture of the car when adaptive cruise control is on

The little car icon reminds me of a e39 BMW for some reason.

I leave that on the longest range and use it as my rock chip radar detector (the icon works even when cruise isn’t on)

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[Doc2020GT]

Yea, and instead of stupid pictures each knob or switch had the word printed under it.

IE Wipers, Lights, Fan, Hot........

I still miss the high beam being on the floor

I still miss that too. I also miss roll up windows with the little vent you can open.

 

[Bikeman315]

I still miss that too. I also miss roll up windows with the little vent you can open.

Here’s what I miss. $0.39 for 260.

 

[Tukman]

When both are green, you’ve reached hyperspeed.

 

[thunderstrike]

Keep Lane Assist

 

[cactus_kid]

And, for those members of the flat earth society, It will alert them if they're going over the edge.

 

[pyrophilus]

ive only seen the collision imminent icon appear once when i passed a car a bit close but no way I would have been able to stop, it was a split second icon/sound

My 17 had the forward collision alert, but manual said it only warns and does not stop the car (but it charges brake cylinder so when you step on peddle it will assist).

The 18+ has the Safe and Smart package, which not only warns you but will also stop the car automatically. The emergency automatic breaking on my wife's MDX saved me from t-boning an idiot who popped out between two cars. I have pretty good reaction time, but this was so sudden, my left foot was moving from gas to brake pedal when the car stopped for me.

I honked, and the driver flipped me the finger. It was a small late model civic coupe. Hs didn't realize that the only reason his wife/gf wasn't dead is because my car auto braked.

Back to my '19, the auto braking did kick in when a 6th grader decided to run out between two parked cars as I was coming down the road. My gt actually hot the brakes about 1/10th of a second before I actually stomped the pedal.

The one thing that annoyed me. On my 17, the red led lights would turn on/off in the beginning when you turn on the engine. Would it have killed someone at ford for them to animate it like KITT's scanner??? Not all the time, but when you first start your car, the red led light just moves across and bqck???

 

[hellohello123]

My 17 had the forward collision alert, but manual said it only warns and does not stop the car (but it charges brake cylinder so when you step on peddle it will assist).

The 18+ has the Safe and Smart package, which not only warns you but will also stop the car automatically. The emergency automatic breaking on my wife's MDX saved me from t-boning an idiot who popped out between two cars. I have pretty good reaction time, but this was so sudden, my left foot was moving from gas to brake pedal when the car stopped for me.

I honked, and the driver flipped me the finger. It was a small late model civic coupe. Hs didn't realize that the only reason his wife/gf wasn't dead is because my car auto braked.

Back to my '19, the auto braking did kick in when a 6th grader decided to run out between two parked cars as I was coming down the road. My gt actually hot the brakes about 1/10th of a second before I actually stomped the pedal.

The one thing that annoyed me. On my 17, the red led lights would turn on/off in the beginning when you turn on the engine. Would it have killed someone at ford for them to animate it like KITT's scanner??? Not all the time, but when you first start your car, the red led light just moves across and bqck???

Wow glad you are ok!
Nothing gets me more angry are people who are in the wrong, you've done them a favour and they proceed like you were in the wrong

I have a 20 so it should have that auto break feature,
I'm a bit sceptical that it will stop me from crashing completely but will need to read the manual
If it works, I will be super duper impresssed

 

[pyrophilus]

Wow glad you are ok!
Nothing gets me more angry are people who are in the wrong, you've done them a favour and they proceed like you were in the wrong

I have a 20 so it should have that auto break feature,
I'm a bit sceptical that it will stop me from crashing completely but will need to read the manual
If it works, I will be super duper impresssed

I believe the system auto brakes at <15mph, and at higher (35mph?), it doesn't stop, but will slow down, and at higher speeds it will not stop/slow, but the red led will flash and you get audible collision warning.

This kinda works as I have tried this (behind my wife's car). The system does slow down the mustang when she slowed from 45 to 15.

If you leave your cruise control on, it will slow down and then even stop right behind the car in front.

Consumer reports (or IIHS) unfairly bashed the Ford,Mazda, and Hyundai's system because they tested the system with cars driving 35 down and a "child" mannequin coming out between two parked cars. For some reason the fusion that they tested ended up hitting the child. While the subaru and volvo systems seem to be able to stop it, in real world situations, my mustang did stop and that's because I was not texting or distracted in any other way. Also their tests don't seem to show how many trials they do, and when they list performance numbers they never say if the numbers were averages, which they should be.

Should people buy cars because it can stop itself so that the driver can afford to be more distracted? I say if the driver is that distracted so that they must buy the car that has the best ability to stop itself, maybe they need to get their drivers license taken away because... they aren't driving anymore.

Would I be happier if the ford system performed perfectly in the consumer reports flawed (and often biased) testing system? Why not. Do I wish my car was best at emergency automatic braking? I don't know. The emergency braking is (to me) like any other safety device, (like airbags, seatbelts). I don't plan (and hope) to use it, but when contingencies do happen, I am hoping that I will actually be paying attention to the road and my situational awareness that the ford's system will assist me to not cause death.

In another topic... while the lane keeping system in the mustang's safe&smart package is alright (actually it's pretty useless because it doesn't intervene until you are about to go out of your lane, making it look like a drunk driver is driver your car), the copilot360 in the 2020 escape loaner car was almost too good. The copilot system is labeled centering, not lane keeping, and it did an amazing job keeping the car in the center lane. The MDX system isn't too bad as I used to drive from NYC to Monterey MA and on the highways, I just keep my hand on the steering wheel and it basically does everything on it's own, and I feel that the ford's new system is even better.

That being said, I still keep my system turned on, hoping that Ford will at least take log on what my front camera sees and what I am actually doing, and maybe send all that data back to Ford's data farm and help the development of their AI driving algorithm... I doubt it, even though that seems like it'll be the fastest way to make the best self-driving technology... I doubt they do that though, because it makes too much sense.

I am all for mor advanced tech, as long as I can still go full manual. To row my own gears on a V8 and do my own double declutching, and then put it it on semi-autonomous driving on a 3+ hour highway cruising if I want to? That sounds pretty good to me.

Hell, I'll even take a 2.3L EB driving rear wheels, and electric front awd, and be able to switch from rear wheel ICE to awd in snow, and then go electric biased mode that can net me much better gas mileage? I will totally support Ford (as long as they continue making V8's and can keep them affordable to the average person like me).

 

[Gregs24]

It can be configured to either warn you, or to actively steer, or both. But personally I find the best setting to be "off".

Very off is best !

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