There are also loads
of new - to - the - Escape safety features like: enhanced active park - assist that steers your car into parallel or perpendicular parking spots,
adaptive cruise control, collision warning that automatically applies the brakes to avoid or mitigate a rear - ender, lane - keeping and, if none
of that does the trick, a driver alert system that flashes a warning and even vibrates the wheel if it
thinks you're dozing off.
For that extra money you get features like the almost - self - parallel - parking Active Park Assist, which has no pre-2000s parallel I can
think of; and
Adaptive Cruise Control, which made the trip from Toronto to northern Michigan a lot easier than it would've been in the De Soto.