Big Blue
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Interesting reading, it probably doesn't recognize our passing/no passing signs. Would be cool if it could though. Of course I haven't been on roads with those signs to verify. It does recognize our speed limit signs just fine.
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It does misread or not see signs sometimes. I tested it for about an hour yesterday and it had hits and misses. One big miss is it saw a small rt number sign and thought it was a speed limit sign. It was indicating 55 then saw the sign for rt 40 and it changed to 40 and blinked because I was way past 40. So meh, it's ok. Doesn't bother me. I still feel if you have nav, the speed signs on there never been wrong.
One thing I miss from my Garmin is getting warnings for like speed limit changes, school zone, rr tracks, etc. Wish Ford would implement something like that.
lawrench
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Why would you want to do this? Just curious. I get an insurance discount for having DRL on my vehicles.
Starjammir
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I have LEDs on my Ranger and get flashed with them. I even reaimed them down, no difference.
Big Blue
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I have LEDs in mine also, but I only run my parking and fogs as DRL. Not my low beams, haven't been flashed yet.
lawrench
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I made this mod following your instructions. I must have did something wrong because my front facing camera went offline and Cruise Control stopped working, and my pre-collision warning stopped working. I thought that I would have to pay big bucks to get it back to factory defaults, but was able to use Forscan to set back to factory build. I tried it again, and it worked like a charm. My only complaint so far is that the chime warning is barely audible. But good mod as the wife always complains that I speed too much.Here's the modules that need changed in order to get the full Speed Limit Sign reading to work:
IPC > Traffic Sign Recognition = Enabled
IPMA > Traffic Sign Recognition = Speed Limit Information Function (SLIF) AND Traffic Sign Recognition Mode = Camera Only On (other modes cause errors).
This all add the options that need to be enabled in the dash menu:
Driver Assist > Traffic Signs > Always On (It will show up in the area highlighted when it detects a speed limit sign. It will time go blank when you slow down and stop/turn a corner of speed up a lot).
Geoff
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This is really a fun little kick-ass feature. I doubt it's fool proof so I won't 'rely' on it but I will use it. Thanks!Got the speed limit sign reading to work!! Real time camera reading not map based either.
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As noted above when turned onto a new road the speed reading vanishes until you pass a speed limit sign on the new road. That said, if you pass the speed limit sign too quickly after making the turn it doesn't register (I have two local streets like that). And it may take a short while for it to detect that you turned onto a new street if the turn wasn't abrupt.
Big Blue
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Funny, I did a bunch of driving yesterday and watched it close. Never had a mis-read. Maybe the route signs in Tennessee look closer to speed signs than in Wisconsin. and our county roads are also lettered not numbered. State roads are numbered and it didn't pick them up.
One other note, all the pictures I see of the lariat dash only show a spot for the speed limit while the XLT dash has the second spot for the passing signs. Maybe the put is somewhere else (right display) or don't show it.
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No biggy.... designed for Europe anywho...
Big Blue
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Granted, Just one of the quirky things those of us with too much time on our hands during quarantine find and just need to see what it does. Sort of like finding the Easter Egg in a computer program.
Porpoise Hork
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Here's the modules that need changed in order to get the full Speed Limit Sign reading to work:
IPC > Traffic Sign Recognition = Enabled
IPMA > Traffic Sign Recognition = Speed Limit Information Function (SLIF) AND Traffic Sign Recognition Mode = Camera Only On (other modes cause errors).
This all add the options that need to be enabled in the dash menu:
Driver Assist > Traffic Signs > Always On (It will show up in the area highlighted when it detects a speed limit sign. It will time go blank when you slow down and stop/turn a corner of speed up a lot).
Not sure what went wrong. Enabled all of the appropriate settings but it didn't work. The place holder next to the odometer did not appear. The menu options are there and I configured them but still nothing showing up. I even tried resetting it and turning it back on again but still nothing.
Big Blue
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Only suggestion I have is to go into Forscan, call up the module configuration and check that all your settings are right and still there. Then call up the as-built for the module and force a write all. It will tell you that there are no changes but have it write the whole module anyway. Don't know why but I have had to do this sometime when the write in the configuration menu doesn't seem to take.
Maybe it's the phases of the moon??
Maybe it's the phases of the moon??
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