Lane Assist Sensitivity
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2019 E63S Sedan
Lane Assist Sensitivity
Have a 2019 E63S and the manual (pg 204) states that you can go to the Active Lane Keeping Assist menu under Vehicle->Assistance->Act. Lane Keeping Assist and select from either Adaptive or Standard. However, the Act. Lane Keeping Assist category doesn't even show up for me. I seem to only be able to either toggle it on/off by using the button on the lower left near the headlight switch. Is this option showing up in your menus like it's described in the manual? To be clear, my car does have the Driver Assistance Package. Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks.
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Best bet is to just turn it off
IT is the most annoying and UNSAFE feature on the car.
I have E400 older car but I could find no difference in Adaptive and standard.
Both hit the brakes whenever you get close to line (so you get premature brake wear) to pull you away from line.
Ya think it would use steering wheel since you have seering assist with driver package and Distronic+ but NOOoooooooooooooo
MB engineers decided since we put this on every car we must use brakes to steer car not steering wheel...
ALSO other IDIOT drivers SWERVE and cannot stay in their lane and want to be in yours so you have to get out of your lane to avoid wreck...
Big Truckers are on their CEll phone calling MAMA and swerve into your lane
WELL the lane assist will FIGHT you and make things very dangerous from my experience -
The first time it fights you - you will understand and want to turn it off...
Mine has been off for a long time and I do not miss it as the Distronic with steering does enough for me and staying in lane is not that hard to do....
IT is the most annoying and UNSAFE feature on the car.
I have E400 older car but I could find no difference in Adaptive and standard.
Both hit the brakes whenever you get close to line (so you get premature brake wear) to pull you away from line.
Ya think it would use steering wheel since you have seering assist with driver package and Distronic+ but NOOoooooooooooooo
MB engineers decided since we put this on every car we must use brakes to steer car not steering wheel...
ALSO other IDIOT drivers SWERVE and cannot stay in their lane and want to be in yours so you have to get out of your lane to avoid wreck...
Big Truckers are on their CEll phone calling MAMA and swerve into your lane
WELL the lane assist will FIGHT you and make things very dangerous from my experience -
The first time it fights you - you will understand and want to turn it off...
Mine has been off for a long time and I do not miss it as the Distronic with steering does enough for me and staying in lane is not that hard to do....
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Yes, from my experience, Tesla Autopilot does seem to be superior to the Mercedes package. However, the problem I have is that I don't even see the option to select between Adaptive and Standard, so i can't even experiment between the two. It seems like others do have this option in their screens. Wondering if this is because it's hidden elsewhere in the menus on the 2019 models or if I'm just blind and completely missing it.
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Everyone has an opinion on it. I, frankly, LOVE it. You just have to know its limits and intervene. I've driven 400+ miles in a day barely touching the wheel. I had to turn it off in places where the lines hadn't been repainted in decades (Tennessee, North Carolina) and in construction where lines are crisscrossing but on a well maintained road with clear weather it was as good as Autopilot for me. There IS a level of trust you have to put in it and, like I said, you need to know when it can't be trusted and take control back. I barely touched either the brakes, the gas, or contributed much steering input that entire drive, probably the least fatigued I've ever been after a long drive. To each his own.
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Everyone has an opinion on it. I, frankly, LOVE it. You just have to know its limits and intervene. I've driven 400+ miles in a day barely touching the wheel. I had to turn it off in places where the lines hadn't been repainted in decades (Tennessee, North Carolina) and in construction where lines are crisscrossing but on a well maintained road with clear weather it was as good as Autopilot for me. There IS a level of trust you have to put in it and, like I said, you need to know when it can't be trusted and take control back. I barely touched either the brakes, the gas, or contributed much steering input that entire drive, probably the least fatigued I've ever been after a long drive. To each his own.
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Yes sounds like Carac is confusing Steering assist with lane assist. I leave my lane assist off too, it gets annoying and I do hate the way it beats the heck out of the brakes cause I do a lot of driving and don't want to be replacing brakes every 30K miles. Thats strange though those menus for adaptive and std should be under the assistance menu I know they are in my car and it's a 2019 E450 with Distronic
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Yes sounds like Carac is confusing Steering assist with lane assist. I leave my lane assist off too, it gets annoying and I do hate the way it beats the heck out of the brakes cause I do a lot of driving and don't want to be replacing brakes every 30K miles. Thats strange though those menus for adaptive and std should be under the assistance menu I know they are in my car and it's a 2019 E450 with Distronic
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Have a 2019 E63S and the manual (pg 204) states that you can go to the Active Lane Keeping Assist menu under Vehicle->Assistance->Act. Lane Keeping Assist and select from either Adaptive or Standard. However, the Act. Lane Keeping Assist category doesn't even show up for me. I seem to only be able to either toggle it on/off by using the button on the lower left near the headlight switch. Is this option showing up in your menus like it's described in the manual? To be clear, my car does have the Driver Assistance Package. Any help with this would be appreciated. Thanks.
I too have a 2019--the instructions for Active Lane Keeping Assistance is on page 216 of my Owners Manual-not page 204. Do you have a US vehicle? The system is either on or off and is activated/deactivated with the second button on the dashboard to the right of the steering wheel. There is no controlling this function from the menus in the Vehicle Menus. It does adapt (so to speak) to your driving style--e.g.,it will not engage if you are utilizing a "sporty driving style". By the way I hate this function and never use it--very annoying and honestly useless unless you are worried about falling asleep at the wheel.Do not confuse this function with Attention Assist (vibrates steering wheel but does not apply brakes) or Blind spot Assist (only provides warning beep) or Active Blind Spot Assist.(provides beeps and course correcting braking if it deems a collision is about to occur).
Hope this is helpful.
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when you have cruise control on you also turn on STEERING ASSIST which keeps car in lane and follows roads twists and turns.
Lane assist will not steer for you.
Check ot manual and read carfully to fully understand differences
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Lane assist has nothing to do with Cruise control and is on or off so when driving without cruise and LANE ASSIST is on... if you venture towards a raod solid line the car applies the opposite brake to pull car back into center of lane.
when you have cruise control on you also turn on STEERING ASSIST which keeps car in lane and follows roads twists and turns.
Lane assist will not steer for you.
Check ot manual and read carfully to fully understand differences
when you have cruise control on you also turn on STEERING ASSIST which keeps car in lane and follows roads twists and turns.
Lane assist will not steer for you.
Check ot manual and read carfully to fully understand differences
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I too have a 2019--the instructions for Active Lane Keeping Assistance is on page 216 of my Owners Manual-not page 204. Do you have a US vehicle? The system is either on or off and is activated/deactivated with the second button on the dashboard to the right of the steering wheel. There is no controlling this function from the menus in the Vehicle Menus. It does adapt (so to speak) to your driving style--e.g.,it will not engage if you are utilizing a "sporty driving style". By the way I hate this function and never use it--very annoying and honestly useless unless you are worried about falling asleep at the wheel.Do not confuse this function with Attention Assist (vibrates steering wheel but does not apply brakes) or Blind spot Assist (only provides warning beep) or Active Blind Spot Assist.(provides beeps and course correcting braking if it deems a collision is about to occur).
Hope this is helpful.
Hope this is helpful.
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On my 2018, the Lane Assist button is one of the buttons on left hand side of the dash next to the rear blind raise/lower and the car raise/lower buttons on the right hand side of that clustrer.
The Steering Assist is also in that cluster of buttons, but on the left hand side of the cluster.
You can turn on adaptive cruise with the Steering Assist enabled or disabled via that button.
The Steering Assist is also in that cluster of buttons, but on the left hand side of the cluster.
You can turn on adaptive cruise with the Steering Assist enabled or disabled via that button.
