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Will the car stop by itself? 2014 S class with distronics but no night vision.
I admit to being chicken to test it myself.
I know that with the distronic plus in traffic, it will stop before hitting the car ahead of me.
But driving around town, without the distronic on, will it avoid a collision with the car in front of me? I got close enough once that it started beeping and made the brakes 'magic', but I manually stopped.
Will it stop if a pedestrian walks in front of it, while traveling at slow speed? The manual seems to indicate so, but I can't find any family that wants to show of the new feature.
And how does it handle crossing objects, say at an intersection?
I have read the manual, but it doesn't seem very clear.
Porsche Taycan, Range Rover AB, Range Rover SVR, S Class, Mclaren 570s, Urus Hybrid (soon), M3, RS6
Hi,
Why don't you want to leave Distronic on? I don't wish to take any risks so I've just left distronic on 24/7 and it has helped me on numerous occasions.
Thanks
Thanks for the information. Do you know at what speed it becomes active? If I park in front of my garage door, it seems to let me pull up and touch the door without complaining. That's OK, but if I were stopped at an intersection, and started forward, would it detect and stop me from wiping out a pedestrian that stepped in front of the car?
It seemed to let me scare the **** out of an older lady who almost whacked the car with her cane.
hopefully, this will help...taken straight from MBUSA's booklet on 'Cross-Carline Technologies' out of the section 'Intelligent Drive'. Explains functionality and speeds that relate to each system...
Ah, but what is the 'turn on' speed....ex: > 5mph and what's the turn off speed at the low end? For the Bas Plus and Pre-Safe systems.
Which is why I think I can touch my garage door by inching up.
i THINK it's anything over 0mph...the caveat to that is that throttle is being pressed and not simply a rolling car from taking foot off of brake. i'm pretty certain that if you just let off of the brake, you will indeed roll into the door. that being said, i wouldn't try to accelerate into the door, either.
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