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Pilot Assist

Pilot Assist combines several support capabilities to make driving safer, more convenient and less demanding. It can assist you with speed management and steering guidance in a wide variety of situations.
Pilot Assist capabilities

Pilot Assist actively guides your driving in a number of ways. When driving with Pilot Assist, you select the target speed. The car then manages acceleration and braking to meet that target while also adapting to surrounding traffic.

It's also capable of steering assistance. When enabled, steering assistance helps with road positioning by guiding your steering wheel movement.

 Important

Before using Pilot Assist

  • Take the time to read everything the manual has to say about Pilot Assist before using it.
  • This support feature depends on information from radar and camera detection systems. Understanding their capabilities and limitations is necessary for safe use.

The driver is in control

When using Pilot Assist, you are still in control of the car. It's your responsibility to continuously assess Pilot Assist's performance. As long as you judge its input to be correct, you can let it guide your driving.

 Tip

Customise Pilot Assist

Some of Pilot Assist's capabilities can be customised, either in Pilot Assist's settings or by using the steering wheel buttons. This allows you to set it up for the level of support you want.

Pilot Assist and adaptive cruise control

While your car is equipped with Pilot Assist, you also have access to adaptive cruise control1. The adaptive cruise control can be considered a sub-feature of Pilot Assist, providing speed- and distance-keeping but no steering assistance. You can activate and switch between the features using the Pilot Assist button on the steering wheel. The driver display typically shows your level of support using symbols2.

 Important

Pilot Assist shares most of its conditions and limitations with adaptive cruise control, except the ones connected to steering assistance. When reading the manual and understanding your car's capabilities, you should consider Pilot Assist and adaptive cruise control to be similar.

Managing speed and distance to vehicles ahead

When you activate Pilot Assist, a set speed value appears by the speedometer. This represents the target speed that Pilot Assist tries to maintain. You can adjust the set speed with the steering wheel buttons.

Instead of manually adjusting the set speed, you also have the option to use the current speed limit as your target speed. The set speed then automatically updates when the speed limit changes. This can be enabled in Pilot Assist's settings.

If your car detects a vehicle ahead that's either slower than you or a bit too close, Pilot Assist will slow down to maintain a certain distance to the vehicle in front. Once the road ahead becomes clear again, your car returns to the target speed. You can adjust the general distance to vehicles ahead with the steering wheel buttons while using Pilot Assist.

Steering assistance

The availability of active steering assistance depends on the conditions you are experiencing. For example, if you encounter a stretch of road with worn-out markings, the car may temporarily turn steering assistance off and tell you to increase your level of control. As soon as the necessary conditions are met again, steering assistance reactivates.

Pilot Assist features and settings

There are a number of Pilot Assist capabilities and settings to read about in this manual.
Steering assistWhen driving with steering assistance, your steering is actively guided. This can help you maintain correct lane positioning.
Adaptive cruise controlWhen adaptive cruise control is active, your car manages acceleration and braking to meet your set target speed while also adapting to surrounding traffic. In essence, adaptive cruise control can be considered as Pilot Assist without steering assistance.
Lane change assistGuides lane change manoeuvres initiated by the driver.
Adapt to speed limitAdapts the set target speed to follow the speed limit.
Time interval to vehicle aheadAdjust the target time interval to the vehicle ahead.

Status and availability

Pilot Assist's availability is indicated in the driver display and depends on the current driving conditions. You can always see the current level of support you're getting from Pilot Assist in the driver display.

 Note

Paused

In some situations, Pilot Assist can be temporarily paused. This can happen when a driver decision is needed to resume driving with Pilot Assist, such as after coming to a stop. When Pilot Assist is paused, a message with instructions for resuming is typically shown in the driver display.

  1. 1 ACC
  2. 2 Warnings and messages in the displays may differ depending on the active feature.

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Pilot Assist communication and status

Learn how Pilot Assist's status and actions are communicated in the car.

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Activating Pilot Assist

You activate Pilot Assist by pressing the Pilot Assist steering wheel button while driving. It's important to assess whether the current driving conditions allow you to use Pilot Assist safely.

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Deactivating Pilot Assist

When you want to stop driving with Pilot Assist, you can deactivate it manually. There are also situations in which Pilot Assist deactivates automatically.

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Adjusting the target speed for Pilot Assist

Pilot Assist can support you in keeping a set target speed. You can adjust the target speed with the steering wheel control buttons.

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Changing lanes with Pilot Assist

Pilot Assist can provide steering assistance during lane changes in certain conditions. This Pilot Assist feature is called lane change assist.

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Adjusting Pilot Assist settings

You can adjust the level of support provided by Pilot Assist.

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Pilot Assist conditions and limitations

To use Pilot Assist safely, it's important to be aware of its limitations. While it's an advanced function, there are conditions and situations that it cannot handle.

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