Active Lane Management - Put Hands on Steering Wheel False Alarms

[2ns2ls]

After a few road trips I've had several cases of the ALM system giving false alarms telling me to put hands on the steering wheel. In every case my hands have been on the wheel and I've been paying full attention. Wondering if anyone else is having similar experiences?

In general I like the way the system performs aside from the false alarms - no annoying beeps just gives some gentle nudges if you get too close to the lines.

 

[Calpenny1]

Happens to me all the time. My service advisor told me that hands need to be at 10 and 2 for the system to recognize them, but I have no idea if that's totally accurate.

 

[freethinked]

Happens to me all the time. My service advisor told me that hands need to be at 10 and 2 for the system to recognize them, but I have no idea if that's totally accurate.

I don’t believe that. I can pinch it with 3 fingers at 5 o’clock and it’s fine.

 

[jeffrow]

I don’t believe that. I can pinch it with 3 fingers at 5 o’clock and it’s fine.

That sounds like a load of BS to me. I’m usually one hand at 5, and never had a problem.

 

[2ns2ls]

I agree it doesn't seem to be based on hand placement. I know that some systems can detect if the driver is making small motions with the wheel (vs detecting touch), but don't know how this system works. Either way it's pretty annoying when it blares the alarm at me for no good reason.

 

[freethinked]

I agree it doesn't seem to be based on hand placement. I know that some systems can detect if the driver is making small motions with the wheel (vs detecting touch), but don't know how this system works. Either way it's pretty annoying when it blares the alarm at me for no good reason.

This isn’t a motion sensor I don’t think. It’s capacitive. Sort of the same idea how some touch screens work.

 

[Axg1040]

I notice if I keep my hands steady it alerts. If I make minor movements it does not alert.

“Drowsy Driver Detection tracks vehicle movement, such as lane deviation, and interaction, such as steering-wheel input over time, for driving behavior consistent with that of a drowsy driver. When certain thresholds are reached, the system responds with audio and/or visual cautions for the driver to pull over. The feature comes standard on Summit models.”

Grand Cherokee L Brings Extensive ADAS

The 2021 Jeep Grand Cherokee L offers more than 110 safety and security features, including innovative applications of technologies

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[aleks.ancevski]

I'm glad to hear i'm not the only one who finds this annoying. Usually happens to my wife or I when driving around town. Haven't taken too many longer road trips so we just keep it off until we get onto a freeway.

 

[MoparMan]

After a few road trips I've had several cases of the ALM system giving false alarms telling me to put hands on the steering wheel. In every case my hands have been on the wheel and I've been paying full attention. Wondering if anyone else is having similar experiences?

In general I like the way the system performs aside from the false alarms - no annoying beeps just gives some gentle nudges if you get too close to the lines.

Anybody ever solve this issue? I have it on my GC L Liminted.

 

[RichSNJ]

I used to have this problem with my '19 GC, it used to scare the hell out of me on longer trips when I was just chilling down the road and all of a sudden Danger Will Robinson erupts. While I'm not 100% sure, I believe it was due to me liking to be as far away from other people as possible, so if I'm in the right lane I hug the right line, and if I'm in the left lane I hug the left line. Sometimes the lane keeping will signal a yellow line on the hugging side, even though it's not close enough to trigger any kind of correction. If this situation continues on a straight enough road where you're not giving any kind of micro corrections to the wheel, the alarm goes off. So, my solution was either to move over towards the center a bit more, or just turn it off for long trips.

Thankfully, on my '22, the steering wheel actually detects your hands on the wheel so this doesn't happen to me anymore. I assume that the wheel which detects touch is part of the active driving assist on the tech packages, so if you don't have that, you've got the old way of doing it which I assume is by sensing small movements.

 

[jmfly30]

I’ve had similar issues. 90% of the time it works like it should, but occasionally I’ll be on a trip and if I keep my hands stationary for just a minute it will alarm. It will stay like that for the trip and the next day it will be back to normal. I usually drive with one hand at 3 o’clock position. I had my dealer search for a service bulletin on the issue, he said there was none. It’s never repeatable long enough to show the problem to the dealer.

 

[PiotrB]

This is what you can try:

1. Put more weight with your hands on the wheel (heard its not about positioning but the weight ur putting on it).
2. While driving and its coming out, try to move the wheel position, from A to B and B to A.

Happened to me once and fixed it with pushing down my wheel pretyy hard and after that never happened again somehow.

Yep, jeep things

 

[Jake22]

Turn ALM off for long trips.

Better yet...turn it off permanently👈