Collision warnings and mitigation

Your vehicle has warning features designed to reduce the risk of a collision. If a collision cannot be avoided, early warning and response can help reduce its effects.
Collision warning features include:
  • Forward collision warnings
  • Warnings about vehicles cutting across your lane

 Note

Safety interventions

If a sufficiently urgent risk of collision is identified, the vehicle can intervene to avoid or mitigate the collision without any preceding collision warnings. In this case, the warnings will be shown at the same time as the intervention.

 Warning

Never rely on collision warnings or safety interventions by the vehicle as a replacement for safe driving practices. Drive the vehicle with the same attention to safety as you would need to in a vehicle without these features.

Forward collision warnings

Forward collision warnings can occur if you are getting too close to a vehicle in front of you. The vehicle warns you if it identifies a collision risk that requires your immediate attention.

The situation and level of urgency affect how forward collision warnings are communicated. Warnings can be communicated visually in the head-up display and with sound and brake pulses.

Your vehicle can also provide you with distance warnings in the head-up display to help you maintain a safe distance to vehicles ahead.

Warnings about vehicles cutting across your lane

Your vehicle can warn you if you are about to be cut off, such as when a vehicle changes lanes just in front of you. Vehicles that swerve or move unpredictably in adjacent lanes can trigger these warnings as well. Your vehicle uses messages in the instrument panel to warn you in these situations.

 Note

Collision response

If a collision cannot be avoided, the vehicle can respond in other ways to protect occupants and reduce the danger to surrounding traffic. Read more about these features in the safety section of this manual.

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