As of Friday, my dealer did not have a way to disable this feature. This was after I had the lift gate hit me in the head hard enough to give me a quarter sized knot. I was loading groceries and stepped too close. The auto reverse feature did not work. This was on a 2015 Ford Edge SEL. I went straight to dealer from there but they were unsuccessful in turning off the feature. They disabled it from the menu, but it did not disable the foot activated lift. We did not try to make it auto reverse, but I am going to experiment with that after reading this post. Might be a flaw with just my vehicle, but I was hit hard it left a visible knot on my head that still hurts!