+1. I am currently driving an XF as a loaner while they try to sort out the clutch. It has a HUD that will show speed, gear, and whether the cruise control is engaged (each separately and in combination selectable). The display is executed quite nicely, but for someone with a manual transmission, all of that info is useless. All I would want in the HUD is an analog tachometer.

 

I would rather they implemented manual parking brake. While I like automatic brake disengage, I still would rather have a handle to pull.

HUD? Don't see the point.

 

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I want a HUD that you can select and nighttime infrared image of the road ahead.

 

So that you don't take your eyes off the road, esp. when you're going at high speed. Why do you think fighter jets have HUD's?

 

Found out the rear view camera works at any speed of you activate it through the "cameras" icon

 

I have a vert and can talk on my phone (through the car system) with the roof down and windows up. The other party doesn't hear the road noise and traffic - even traveling on the freeway.

 

Serious question, do you think this could help with merging on the freeway? I don't know how wide of an angle the camera gives.

 

How much I miss it when it's in for service.

 

No, but it sounds like a great way to have a nasty accident.

 

Very wide, but I imagine: analog button, digital button, digital button, or however many clicks/presses it takes is less safe than just making sure you are safely merging... and, if I left it on all the time, I would likely get mesmerized and confused. I will check this out!

 

A few times now, thrice I believe, I've hit the park button too early and once when I thought it was the vert. Oh wow how I would a real emergency break or parking break. That button there just feels weird. But that is maybe because I fear it now.

I think you could install a HUD?
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I am trying to figure out all my dreams installs prior to a 4K summer road trip. To have a HUD would be delightful.

 

Here's something I learned:

I finally admit to myself I don't really know how the climate control buttons work, not in the slightest, and I've been willfully ignoring whatever the hell is going on and just pressing the buttons more.

I just began trying to type out to explain the sequence of weirdness that happens when I start hitting the buttons, but I can't even explain.

They never seem to intuitively do what one might expect.

 

There is a particular intersection in Baltimore (turning left from eastbound Saratoga onto N.Liberty) where none of the windows or mirrors on the Coupe allow a view of traffic coming down N. Cathedral which turns into N. Liberty (both one-way traffic) at that intersection. A rear camera would be helpful, but I suspect the fisheye effect of the parking camera would make it difficult to judge position of the oncoming traffic. I'll give it a try if that feature is available on my car.

 

I think that's up for debate in the coupe. On my daily route I've got a merge into the left hand lane (so looking over the passenger side into the fast lane), and it's physically obscured a good deal because you start out at a lower elevation than the freeway. Not much room to assess once you're even able to see the traffic coming up behind you. It sucks.

 

Here's a potential solution: Program seat switch #2 with the exact seat settings as switch #1, but with the right hand mirror adjusted outward to see traffic you are merging with at a sharp angle. That way you can just push the #2 button when you first approach the entrance ramp and then press #1 as soon as you have merged to return it to the normal position.

 

The rear view mirror completely obscures pedestrians, bikers, and sometimes even cars at odd angled stop signs. There's a couple 3 way intersection at odd angles where it's just pointless to figure out the right angle vs the absurd slow roll. I used to drive an upright fishbowl of a truck, so this is wildly new stuff to me. The vision package is amazing... And I know people say the vert has no blind spots compared to the coupe, but jeez I couldn't imagine what a blind spot is, then. =)

 

Not for me - no one can understand me even if the roof is up.

 

Most drivers have their mirrors adjusted improperly & create a "blind spot." This (bad) technique is taught almost universally in all basic driver's schools.

A much better way of adjusting your mirrors based on a paper published in 1995 by the SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers). This is the technique I teach in all of my HPDE classes. It pretty much eliminates the "blind spot" & helps keep your eyes/head forward.

 

I've been using the correct adjustments for several years now and have virtually eliminated any blind spot on my other 4 cars. The F-Type coupe, however, leaves a yuge (as the Donald would say) gap in visibility when approaching an intersection at about a 30 degree angle. I will be testing an alternative right mirror angle setting that can see 3 lanes over rather than just one (if my car ever gets out of the shop).

 

I will try this. Good idea.