Rear Cross Traffic Alert
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Rear Cross Traffic Alert
Wife gloated yesterday in supermarket parking lot that her Kia Niro PHEV has better rear cross traffic alert than the 21 GLE350. The Kia has an audible beep and shows a directional arrow on screen when car is in reverse. MB only seems to show an icon on the dash. If looking in rear view mirror, visually looking rear and/or looking at rear camera, there is virtually no chance to notice a small on-screen icon.
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Yes MB don't seem sometimes to have given a lot of thought to positioning of some warning symbols etc.
In my previous GLC the graduated series of lights for the front parking sensors were in a position where you had to take your eyes off the road / windscreen to check them while the lights in my VW are on top of the dash in my line of sight!
Similarly the lights for the rear sensors are poorly positioned and not obviously visible in the rear view mirror.
In my previous GLC the graduated series of lights for the front parking sensors were in a position where you had to take your eyes off the road / windscreen to check them while the lights in my VW are on top of the dash in my line of sight!
Similarly the lights for the rear sensors are poorly positioned and not obviously visible in the rear view mirror.
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Wife gloated yesterday in supermarket parking lot that her Kia Niro PHEV has better rear cross traffic alert than the 21 GLE350. The Kia has an audible beep and shows a directional arrow on screen when car is in reverse. MB only seems to show an icon on the dash. If looking in rear view mirror, visually looking rear and/or looking at rear camera, there is virtually no chance to notice a small on-screen icon.
