This is still how it works today. The wheel must sense a certain amount of turning resistance or it will say there are not hands on the wheel even if there are.

This is still how it works today. The wheel must sense a certain amount of turning resistance or it will say there are not hands on the wheel even if there are. Short of installing new sensors in new steering wheels, all they can do is adjust that sensitivity level which they might not be able to do at risk of false positive detections.