TheCookie

Hi I am in the market of buying a used c43. I am looking at two cars. My question is is it possible for the car to have driver assistance package(Cameras on the windshield) but not have the buttons? And the other question is : Is it possible for the car to have lane keep assist and not have active steering?

superswiss

There's always at least one camera in the windshield for the standard forward collision safety system. With the driver assistance package, the single camera gets replaced with a stereo camera as shown below. Two cameras side-by-side.

As for lane keep assist, there are two versions. There's lane keep assist and then there's active lane keep assist. The former is standard and only vibrates the steering wheel if you cross a lane marker w/o turn signals. The latter is part of the driver assistance package and will actively steer the car back into its lane using selective brake application. The active steering assist is a separate system that works in conjunction with DISTRONIC and is also only there if the vehicle is equipped with the driver assistance package.

Basically, most safety systems are passive, unless you get the driver assistance package and then they become active. Same for blind spot assist. The standard one is passive and only lights up in the mirrors and alerts acoustically, whereas with the driver assistance package it becomes active blind spot assist, which steers the car back if you attempt to change lanes and the adjacent lane is occupied.