Park Assist adventures

[Laurel]

I am still in the mode of showing off my car to friends.  Just took a girl friend for a demo and showed her park assist.  The whole concept is so freaky and unnerving.  I lined up to a parking spot on a quiet street and pushed park assist.  My goodness you have to have faith as the steering whirls around and the car parks itself itself with the little commands of brake, pull forward.  It puts you in very tight spots--so tight you think you will take the front end of your car off.  My friend started to laugh somewhat hysterically through the process.  I asked what she thought after and she said, "that was great, but I have sweaty palms!"  Still loving everything so far. 

[Jus-A-CMax]

It's a control issue. Freakishly weird and I look forward to using it one here in LA. One day.  ;)

[CNCGeek]

This is how skynet got started.

[Jus-A-CMax]

This was one big selling point with my particular car. I recall a couple of years ago, we just bought a Jaguar and the salesman was showing us a brand spanking new Lincoln MKZ (I think) - long, long SUV and it had this park assist. We test drove it and it did its trick. It was impressive and now I find it in my CMax, did not expect it to translate down to "lesser" models so qucikly but KUDOS to Ford for doing it.

Edited December 10, 2012 by Jus-A-CMax

[FoutsNC]

Now if they could just get the Adaptive Cruise Control in the C-Max!  With the amount that I try and use cruise, it would be a major option that I would happily pay for.  I had it on my 2011 Explorer and that's the one option that I really miss.  Maybe the 2015's will have it :)

[OregonCmax]

I was hoping for the Blind spot information system on the C-Max.

[Jus-A-CMax]

I don't think you'll miss that much, I've driven the Jaguar XF and XJ with a great blind spot system built into the side mirrors and it has flashing yellow light warning. Personally, after using the CMax's simpler mirror in mirror blind spot system, it works just as well - as long as you check the corner mirror. It's simple and it works.

[FoutsNC]

I don't think you'll miss that much, I've driven the Jaguar XF and XJ with a great blind spot system built into the side mirrors and it has flashing yellow light warning. Personally, after using the CMax's simpler mirror in mirror blind spot system, it works just as well - as long as you check the corner mirror. It's simple and it works.

 

I completely agree.  I had BLIS on my 2011 Explorer and it worked great, most of the time.  That's where the problem comes in.  The reliability of the system is not 100% and it really needs to be if it is to be a true blind spot system.  We have the feature on my wife's new Escape (because it was already ordered like that) and she prefers my mirrors as well.  The only really nice feature of the BLIS system was the cross traffic alert.  Other than that, it's a "neat" feature, but not as great as you might think at first.   I will probably be adding some bubble mirrors to the wife's Escape along with the lights.