Is there a way to turn on cruise control without lane keeping?

[BroncoBoy25]

Well, the Ford engineers must have decided that we don’t need a hardware button, because my vehicle does not have one. It’s a 2025, and they just have to change a few things every year.

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[Paradocks]

This is in the manual. Once you press the button on the steering wheel it remembers your selection every time you start the car. No need to reprogram.


SWITCHING THE LANE KEEPING SYSTEM ON AND OFF

To activate the lane keeping system, press the button on the steering wheel.

To deactivate the lane keeping system, press the button again.

Note: When switching the system on or off a message appears in the instrument cluster display to show the status.

Note: The system stores the on or off setting until manually changed by you.

 

[Mark S.]

Well, the Ford engineers must have decided that we don’t need a hardware button, because my vehicle does not have one. It’s a 2025, and they just have to change a few things every year.

I looks like they moved the on/off button from the turn signal stalk to the steering wheel, but it still works the same way. I read the HTML version of the 2025 Bronco Sport owners manual and found this:

Switching Lane Keeping On or Off.

 

[Car Guy Bill]

I have tried turning it off in the Features Driver Assistance and even though it is OFF when you turn on cruise control it is on and you have to turn it off with the button on the steering wheel. Has anyone figured this out?

 

[BroncoBoy25]

The best I have been able to do is have lane keeping on low level alert. The least annoying so far. And when you turn on cruise control it automatically sets the speed, so just one more button to push.

 

[Me3]

I have tried turning it off in the Features Driver Assistance and even though it is OFF when you turn on cruise control it is on and you have to turn it off with the button on the steering wheel. Has anyone figured this out?

In your short video you are turning on and off the lane CENTERING, which is different from lane KEEPING. Without going through the whole 2025 manual, it appears to me that a change in the new models is that when you set the lane CENTERING to ON on your big screen it will stay on permanently, until you turn it off on the big screen. This is different from the earlier model years, where you could permanently set lane CENTERING to on or off with the button on the steering wheel, that button is now used to access lane KEEPING. I don’t know if you have to turn lane KEEPING off every time you start the car or not, it should be easy enough to figure it out.

I don’t have a 2025 car in front of me so I’m just going by the posts here and the manual page that Mark posted trying to figure this out, hope you guys can get it settled.

Lane keeping sucks!
Lane centering rocks!

 

[Car Guy Bill]

The best I have been able to do is have lane keeping on low level alert. The least annoying so far. And when you turn on cruise control it automatically sets the speed, so just one more button to push.

Yes I like the one button set like in all of my other Fords but they do not turn on the Lane Keeping when the cruise is activated. I have a Mustang Dark Horse Full Size Bronco and a 24 F150 and none of them do that. The F150 has Blue Cruise like my Mach E GT and neither of them do that very frustrating.

 

[Bucko]

I guess we have these features to alert us when we set them, and then go to cruise control, then step to the back to mix a cocktail.

Geez, how annoying.

 

[Glamdring70]

I guess we have these features to alert us when we set them, and then go to cruise control, then step to the back to mix a cocktail.

Geez, how annoying.

 

[jkernitzki]

The original self-own.

 

[jkernitzki]

So now that I’ve had about a week with the BS, I’ve used cruise with lane centering/keeping as much as possible to gauge it’s usefulness/annoyance ratio.

My verdict? Not perfect, but not bad. It was a little disconcerting at first, feeling the wheel pulling one way or another, but I’ve gotten to understand its modus operandi. It’s more of a gentle nudge to one side or the other, not at all making me feel not in control. It’s let me know I tend to favor the left edge of the lane on straights, and subtly coaxes me back the center. How it guides the steering through curves is kind of neat, more like lessening pressure on the wheel to the inside of the turn.

The adaptive part of cruise is still something I haven’t made my mind up about. It backs off and brakes too aggressively for my taste. I’ve tried it on the freeway and in town in stop & go traffic, and while it works, I prefer to manage distance and braking effort myself.

I’ll probably keep using it as is, knowing it’s not really a bother to take over when I choose, and it’s a quiet assistant that suggests more than insists.

 

[PONY LOVER]

So now that I’ve had about a week with the BS, I’ve used cruise with lane centering/keeping as much as possible to gauge it’s usefulness/annoyance ratio.

My verdict? Not perfect, but not bad. It was a little disconcerting at first, feeling the wheel pulling one way or another, but I’ve gotten to understand its modus operandi. It’s more of a gentle nudge to one side or the other, not at all making me feel not in control. It’s let me know I tend to favor the left edge of the lane on straights, and subtly coaxes me back the center. How it guides the steering through curves is kind of neat, more like lessening pressure on the wheel to the inside of the turn.

The adaptive part of cruise is still something I haven’t made my mind up about. It backs off and brakes too aggressively for my taste. I’ve tried it on the freeway and in town in stop & go traffic, and while it works, I prefer to manage distance and braking effort myself.

I’ll probably keep using it as is, knowing it’s not really a bother to take over when I choose, and it’s a quiet assistant that suggests more than insists.

Have you adjusted the distance for the speed control? At first I thought I would hate the adaptive speed control but after playing with it a little bit I've found I kinda like it.

 

[jkernitzki]

Have you adjusted the distance for the speed control? At first I thought I would hate the adaptive speed control but after playing with it a little bit I've found I kinda like it.

I believe it’s set at max distance. A bit far, I may adjust it in a notch at a time until I’m comfortable with it.

 

[PONY LOVER]

I believe it’s set at max distance. A bit far, I may adjust it in a notch at a time until I’m comfortable with it.

I've set it in the middle & I like it there.

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