How do you like it so far? I’m on the verge of buying one!!! Do you like the engine acceleration/noise? I’m not a big car guy who cares about engine power but noticed the accelerator was a little laggy/slow when I test drove one earlier this week!

Thank you for watching! I hope your wife likes her new Forester

Glad it was helpful!

Yeah, it is quite impressive. I recently got the 2021 Subaru Legacy and all highway driving is a breeze. The only thing I need to do is change lanes to pass. I like too that if it disconnects in the middle of a turn, it'll actually hold its degree of turn so you don't go swerving off to another lane after it disables. I absolutely love to be able to sit back and let my car do all the work

So yours steers through turns like i learned my new outback will do??? I was freaking out and giggling like a child at Christmas watching it drive and steer itself

@@truckercowboyed2638 it sure does. I love it

I was blown away by how good the system was. 30 seconds without touching the wheel before it turned off. Can the time be extended?

Nissan is shit! Subaru is so much better in snow & offroad.

My Crosstrek rarely turns itself off

Good to know:) Thanks!!!!

Still applies the same to a 2023 model. If you want to switch to conventional cruise control, turn the Adaptive Cruise on and push and hold the buttons that change the distance for the adaptive cruise control for about three seconds and it will beep and change to conventional cruise control.

I have not used the Lane Centering Assist (as is standard on 2020+ Forester) at night, but I would assume it works fine. I currently drive a 2020 Impreza that has the Lane Keep Assist (not as fancy) and it seems to work pretty much the same at night as it does during the day. You are not quite correct about the Forester detecting your eyes/falling asleep. If you get a Forester Touring, you get the "Driver Focus Distraction Mitigation System," which gives you an infra-red camera that detects if the driver's eyes are on the road and will give you an audio/visual alert if it thinks you aren't looking at the road. It does not have the ability to stop the car or pull it over or anything like that, and again only the Touring model has this feature. The Lane Centering Assist will cease to function if you take your hands off the steering wheel, and it will prompt you to put your hands back on the wheel. Of course all new Foresters come standard with the EyeSight safety system that has the ability to bring the car to a stop with emergency braking if it detects an obstacle, but as of right now a Subaru does not have the ability to pull itself over and stop on the side of the road on its own accord.

I should add here that what I said about Touring models is applicable to US Market cars, which is where I live. If you're in another country the trim levels might be different.

Thank you for watching! I have a video coming where I show the Eyesight Monitoring System (The Red, Yellow and Green lights on the dash) that will explain parts of the Lane Departure warning on your car so stay tuned!

Check this one out, this feature will be on your new Outback: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/orx3m5aXr5_Yias.html

@@CarDietrich Thanks again for this additional video. Maybe you can do a follow up even more in depth Lane Centering video. Some people are saying it hugs too far right, or left, sometimes ping pongs. I have not received my Touring XT (can't wait). Also curious if Subaru plans to do over the air updates to improve the system? I also am curious as to how well the Lane Departure Prevention (formerly Land Keep Assist) works. Also curious how LC works at night. Great videos on your part Hard Workrr12 - really excellent!

That is my understanding yes, but I haven't driven one on a highway with no lane markings yet.

Thank you for watching, glad you liked it! Let me know if there are any other videos you want in the future.

Hard Workrr12 On a video I watched it mentioned a heads up display. But I think it only showed up the windshield for the blind spot indicator. Have you seen that at all? Thanks.

The only heads up display on Subarus is the eyesight monitoring system, which is the red, yellow, and green lights telling you what your eyesight is doing. I may make a video on that in the future.

Hard Workrr12 the green yellow and red lights show up on windshield? Yeah that would be cool if you could show that in a future video. Thanks.

Alright I'll see what I can do

I find it to be pretty smooth, but to each their own. I mainly use it on Southern California freeways, which necessitate un-smooth driving, so maybe that's why I don't have a problem with it. Thanks for watching!

3 or 4 is WAY too far. That puts enough space in front of you that people will be pulling in front of you all the time (hence slamming on your brakes when it really doesn't need to be). I have it at 1, sometimes 2 if I'm following something I want to keep some distance from.

The lane centering assist will only work with the adaptive cruise control engaged, which you have to going 20 MPH to turn on.

The lane centering assist will only work with the adaptive cruise control engaged, which you have to going 20 MPH to turn on.

@@CarDietrich Thank you!

Just watched a video from a Subaru dealer and they mentioned that the cruise has to be ON but doesn’t have to be set….but l never owned one so maybe someone can test this theory.

No sir, those systems do not effect the lane centering

No, Subaru does not mean for it to be a self driving system so they want you to have your hands on the wheel. No way to change that

Just the Lane Keep Assist for 2020, no Lane Centering on Crosstrek yet.

What country are you in?

Yeah, and it turns itself off even more frequently on surface streets. But its a driver assistance system, not self-driving, and when its active it does work really well. Thanks for watching!

Yeah I think the driver should still always steer the car. This is a remedy that in case the car goes out it might save it.

@@qcheroback You have to temper your expectations for the price you pay. Teslas aren't that expensive in comparison but their raison d'etre is self driving behind EV tech. Subaru's EyeSight is worth every penny.

just drove from boston to philly and back and it was no gimmick. It turned off less than a half dozen times and only twice i had to move the wheel. 850 miles total

Oops! My autofill butted in when I meant Adaptive Cruise Control.

Which model 2021 Subaru do you have?

Two things: push the steering wheel button on the right side of the steering wheel to toggle the system on and off if you don't like it. If the system senses you are doing what you are doing intentionally (IE a swift emergency maneuver) it will not intervene. As far as damaging the power steering system, the steering assist is electric so there is pretty much no chance of damaging it by fighting with the Lane Keep Assist. It won't fight you that hard anyway.

Try using your blinker

When you hit resume to "resume" cruising (IE after you've stopped) it will not increase the set speed, it just reactivates the cruise control

@@CarDietrich thank you!

On the newer Subarus it will hold the brake, on the earlier Eyesight cars it will give you an audible warning to hit the brake yourself.

@@CarDietrich can you please be more specific with your "newer" statement. Like what year? I'm about to pick up my new 2016 Legacy 3.6 RS Premium tomorrow, so I've been watchin all the videos that feautures what my Legacy RS has.

Unfortunately no this feature was not available on the 2016 Crosstrek, but if your 2016 Crosstrek is equipped with Eyesight it should have Lane Keep Assist, which is somewhat similar but doesn't control the steering as much

2020 or newer Legacy has this feature yes

I've had more time to use the lane centering since I've made that video, and I actually find that it seems to work better at night?? When it's engaged and reading the lines it does work really well

@Louie A'mor No, its not on by default. Its just part of the cruise control setup.

To disable the adaptive cruise control and switch to conventional cruise control, turn the cruise control on by pushing the button with the car and speedometer icon on the right right side of the steering wheel, then push and hold the button directly to the left of that (it will have an up arrow and a road on it) for two or three seconds.

I find it to be really dependant on the quality of the painted lines differentiating the lanes. It will work in town just fine if it has good lane lines to read. If it doesn't it goes on strike

@@CarDietrich If I understand correctly, the lane centering works only when adaptive cruise control is on. Correct? And in city traffic lights, taking turns I will have to use brakes and I am afraid the brakes would disengage the lane centering since adaptive cruise control is off now?

Correct, the Lane Centering can only be engaged when the adaptive cruise control is on and engaged. The adaptive cruise on the Subarus has the ability to bring the car to a complete stop, so you can use it in town with the lane centering if you desire. If you hit the brakes of course you will disengage the adaptive cruise and therefore disable lane centering as well, but you wouldn't necessarily have to do that in city driving unless someone cut you off hard.

Yeah after making two videos on it and trying it a couple more times I'll be honest I never really used it after that. I love the adaptive cruise control but I'll handle the steering myself

hardworkrr12 on cars it’s kind a neat you still have the lane keeping (White Lines at 37 m/hr), but the blue lines can take you down to zero so if there’s no mailboxes to the right of me I’ll use it! You got to admit it works perfect on the freeway! Love this machine.

Yeah it's definitely not self driving. To be fair, Subaru does not advertise it as such.

I don't understand the comment.

@@treasurethetime2463 meaning I wanted one before he said the eyesight could lock onto the back of the truck instead of the flatbed trailer

It wouldn't have made a difference for what I was doing here

@@CarDietrich Well, it made a difference to me.

As a middle-aged driver I don't find the system to be all that useful to be honest. I recently got a 2020 Impreza with eyesight, it has the adaptive cruise but with lane keep assist, not the lane centering. I don't use the lane keep assist on it but I do use the adaptive cruise, that I think is a very useful feature. If I had one with the lane centering I probably wouldn't use that function either.

My Legacy had 180 miles on it, but they traded it with a dealer 120 miles away to get me the color I wanted (blue). 😉

Just got my 2021 Crosstrek and found lane-centering superb on well-marked highways with or without a car following. It needs well-defined lines on either side of the vehicle between which to center. Works well on most gradual curves. Perhaps the setup is different on the legacy than a Crosstrek or perhaps there is something wrong with your eyesight that might be remedied by the dealer. At least on my vehicle, it worked as advertised. Its not autopilot or a Tesla, but does the job for me when I am on a longer highway drive.

I should add that adjusting the adaptive cruise to maintain the max distance between cars gives it the ability to map out the lines ahead of it, and in my experience worked best with maximum following distance.

You're probably not driving the car in the center of the lane, so you're fighting with it. People have a tendency to steer right because they sit on the left and have a mental difference between where they think the center of the car is and where it actually is. When you see another car, you have a visual reference so you're tracking the lane better. This is all lane centering systems: rest your hands on the wheel, let it do what it wants to, and only intervene when there's a problem.

i don’t know what’s going on with yours but my 2022 crosstrek is kept in the dead center. I’m amazed by it.

I call that “ping-ponging”…and it happened to me in a 2024 Malibu!

In all honesty that was one of the very first Subarus with that feature, I have a 2021 model Legacy with it now and it works much better on that car. Not sure if they updated the software or what but that's what it is.

my crosstrek is amazing. very exact and reliable

it doesn’t go on and off. it’s incredibly reliable and stable.

Also, in JDM cars, you can use it WITHOUT adaptive cruise control on

@@Goosetrain123 The 2020 model is the first to get the lane centering. Before it was just lane assist. And the car still has lane assist when cruise control is turned off. It just won't keep you in the lane consistently like it does when you have cruise control on