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Old Aug 17, 2013 | 02:27 PM
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Camera lens?

I was cleaning my front windshield, and there looks like a camera lens facing forward in the center mirror cluster at the top of the windshield. Is this a camera? If it is, how do I activate it? There are 2 yellow lines (sort of looks like cordite) parallel to each other, but at an angle.
Is this a partly installed 360 degree camera?
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Old Aug 17, 2013 | 05:44 PM
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Do you have distronic? It sounds like the radar sensor that distronic uses.
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Old Aug 17, 2013 | 06:12 PM
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Lane Keeping Assist uses a camera mounted high on the windshield near the rearview mirror.

This video mentions the camera and how it works:
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Old Aug 17, 2013 | 06:17 PM
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Oh, that's right. Distronic uses a sensor mounted near the star in the grill. That's why you can't have the illuminated star if you also have distronic. I got the two packages mixed up with each other.
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Apparently, the camera near the mirror is the sensor for the auto dipping headlamps.
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Old Sep 12, 2013 | 11:05 PM
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Camera has multiple functions. For the auto high beam assist and for lane keeping. Newer M-B's (Es and Esses, not the MLs) have two to facilitate stereoscopic imaging to further enhance safety features like automatic braking.
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