I can understand why people would get a defeat device, especially for long trips. The nagging gets old and keeping your hand on the steering wheel doesn’t always work well, especially on long, straight stretches. I’ve also been the victim of 2 or 3 unprovoked strikes and after the last one I strongly considered getting a weight.
The wheel is definitely out of the field of view. Though I got an instant strike (no waring) when both my hands could be seen by the camera.
I drive 150-350 miles a day. 6-8 hours a day. My weight works perfectly still. Never gotten a strike. But I also don’t have a problem tapping the wheel every now and then.
It seems like with a wheel weight and hands on wheel there would be no problem (except perhaps inadvertent disengagements?).
I don’t hold the wheel… but I do touch it fairly often. Saw some guy say he went 10 minutes without touching it. I couldn’t lol. Too much passing slow people in the left lane.
What software version are you on? Curious as to whether they've updated this with the 44.25 update
I think if you touch the wheel at all you’d be fine. If not, it cannot be explained.
Na, there's more to it now. There's an alert specifically telling you to remove the defeat device from your wheel.
that sounds reasonable - then I remember the <unprintable> (to be clear not you) who though it was perfectly reasonable to peer out of any window except the windshield for 30 seconds at a time and call that "paying attention" - then say the received strikes were "unreasonable"
I keep one hand on the steering yoke, left side, and still get non-stop nags which require me to put even more force onto the left side of the yoke to satisfy them. I tried to take a video of it by putting a phone onto my chest, but that yielded into a no-warning strike for me LOL. I have video proof if you haven't seen it in the other thread.
