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Driving comfort
Symbol flashes red and a signal sounds:
▷ For oncoming traffic.
Brake and make an evasive maneuver,
▷ Unlit vehicles or vehicles with nonworking
if necessary.
lighting at night.
The system has been interrupted or dis-
Swerving vehicles
tance control is temporarily suppressed
because the accelerator pedal is being
pressed; a vehicle was not detected.
Distance control is temporarily sup-
pressed because the accelerator pedal
is being pressed; a vehicle was de-
tected.
Displays in the Head-up Display
A vehicle driving in front of you is not detected
The information from Active Cruise Control can
until it is completely within the same lane as
also be displayed in the Head-up Display.
your vehicle.
If a vehicle driving ahead of you suddenly
System limits
swerves into your lane, the system may not be
able to automatically restore the selected dis-
Detection range
tance. It may not be possible to restore the se-
lected distance in certain situations, including if
you are driving significantly faster than vehicles
driving ahead of you, for instance when rapidly
approaching a truck. When a vehicle driving
ahead of you is reliably detected, the system
requests that the driver intervene by braking
and carrying out evasive maneuvers, if needed.
Cornering
The detection capacity of the system and the
automatic braking capacity are limited.
Two-wheeled vehicles for instance might not
be detected.
Deceleration
The system does not decelerate in the following
situations:
▷ For pedestrians, cyclists or similarly slow-
If the desired speed is too high for a curve, the
moving road users.
speed is reduced slightly, although curves can-
▷ For red traffic lights.
not be anticipated in advance. Therefore, drive
▷ For cross traffic.
into a curve at an appropriate speed.
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