Ford Global Technolgoies, LLC

Ford Motor Company Limited

John Steven McWilliams

Erick Michael Lavoie

Imad Hassan Makki

Hassene Jammoussi

Ronald Patrick Brombach

Kevin Stanton Giaier

Daniel F Slavin

Bruce C Arnold

Fernando Cruz Solis

Amol Bhaskar Kurkute

Madhuri Narvekar

A vehicle is able to be set to operate in a factory mode (as opposed to a normal mode) in which certain features are disabled, such as an alarm system, a power liftgate, etc. This allows assembly workers to assemble, test, and calibrate the vehicle without various systems in the vehicle being undesirably activated. While in the factory mode, the vehicle can accomplish multiple ignition on/off cycles while being tested or driven between stations. A steering column and connected steering wheel are provided in the vehicle, and are situated between an instrument panel and a front seat. In response to the ignition completing an on/off cycle, a controller commands a motor to move the steering wheel and steering column to a predetermined position that is based on a visibility of the instrument panel relative to the steering wheel and steering column.

Optimizing alignment of steering column and steering wheel during vehicle production

A system includes a computer including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the computer to determine a recursive standard deviation and a recursive mean offset of a plurality of steering component angles and to identify a wheel misalignment fault upon determining that the recursive standard deviation is below a deviation threshold and the recursive mean offset is above an offset threshold.

Wheel diagnostic

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