Pilot Assist actively guides your driving in a number of ways. When driving with Pilot Assist, you select the target speed. The vehicle then manages acceleration and braking to meet that target while also adapting to surrounding traffic.
It's also capable of steering assistance. When available, 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. Understanding its capabilities and limitations is necessary for safe use.
The driver is in control
When using Pilot Assist, you are still in control of the vehicle. 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
Customize Pilot Assist
Some of Pilot Assist's capabilities can be customized either in the Pilot Assist 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 vehicle is equipped with Pilot Assist, you also have access to adaptive cruise control. 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 your steering wheel control buttons. The instrument panel typically shows your level of support using symbols1.
Important
Managing speed and time interval to vehicles ahead
When you activate Pilot Assist, a set speed value appears next to the speedometer. This represents the target speed that Pilot Assist tries to maintain. You can adjust the target speed with the steering wheel buttons.
If your vehicle 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 vehicle returns to the target speed. You can adjust the target time interval to vehicles ahead using the steering wheel buttons.
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 vehicle may temporarily turn steering assistance off and you must steer the vehicle without assistance from by Pilot Assist. As soon as the necessary conditions are met again, steering assistance reactivates.
Steering assistance is unavailable during lane changes and will temporarily deactivate when you use the turn signals.
Note
Adaptive cruise control
When using adaptive cruise control, your vehicle will not provide any steering assistance2.
Pilot Assist features and settings
| Steering assistance | When driving with steering assistance, your steering is actively guided. This can help you maintain correct lane positioning. |
| Adaptive cruise control | When adaptive cruise control is active, your vehicle manages acceleration and braking to meet your set target speed while also adapting to surrounding traffic. In essence, you can think of adaptive cruise control as being like Pilot Assist without steering assistance. |
| Target speed | You can adjust the target speed for Pilot Assist using the steering wheel buttons. |
| Distance keeping | You can adjust your vehicle's general distance-keeping by adjusting the time interval to vehicles ahead using the steering wheel buttons. |
| Pilot Assist as default | Allows you to activate Pilot Assist as your default assisted driving feature. You can enable or disable this in settings. While driving, you can switch between Pilot Assist and adaptive cruise control using the steering wheel controls. |
Status and availability
Pilot Assist's availability depends on the current driving conditions and is indicated in the instrument panel. You can always see the current level of support you're getting from Pilot Assist in the instrument panel.
Note
Pause
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, this is communicated in the instrument panel.
