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For science, I confirmed you can lower the steering wheel to brush your legs and be hands free (had sweatpants on). The system does pretty well, but it will lose the lanes enough that I wouldn't suggest this as your hands do need to be ready any moment. Grinded away lanes in construction zone lane shift areas are guaranteed to confuse the system.
I gave up and placed my GC order without it today.
I’m getting close to doing the same. I have along road trip in June and want the new car before that. Hope you enjoy!
I hear ya. But apparently I’m more of an optimist this morning. If you look at the Canadian website (https://www.jeep.ca/en/grandcherokee4xe/features-safety) for the 4xe, it 1) doesn’t show the Hands-Free as late availability and doesn’t indicate a major distinction with the active driving assist. I inferred that framing to mean it would be included as long as you had the Jeep Connect subscription to use the hands-free. I heard back from a dealer this morning that there was no news on a recent conference call and asked them to check a 2022 JG Summit to see if it had the camera (I haven’t seen any pictures of a Summit in the wild - just the ones on the build and price showing the camera).
Doesn’t seem meaningful to me since they also are all tagged as “highway assist system” too. I think you’ve been right that from a hardware perspective, the camera is on the steering wheel is the main differentiator (though wish i had grabbed a screen shot when the Build and Price was originally showing the Hands Free as an option). The big unknown to me is when will Jeep start building with the camera or allow the camera to be added - that seems to be critical even if the software / uConnect isn’t ready yet. Don’t know though if there is other hands-free specific hardware that needs to be added. Lookgin forward to one of Ya’ll getting a Summit Reserve and Reporting back!
I ordered the SR 4xe. I don't see anything on my build sheet that I got on 01/27/22 that indicates a camera. What would the sales code and description be?
No clue. was hoping it came standard based on the Canada website I referenced above. I'd assume the description would be something like Driver Monitoring Camera that others have found on the Mopar site.
Gotcha. Yeah, the build sheet I received is super high level and not a lot of details on it. I attached a screenshot from what my dealer sent me.
Ah ok, yeah I don't think anyone who ordered a 4xe has that yet since none of them have started production other than one person who claims their 4xe is in paint.
Yea, unfortunately not too surprised. I’m hoping that with the late arrival of the 4xe that maybe it’ll start there but I think that’s more fantasy than reality.
