Adaptive cruise control1 can support you with maintaining a set speed. When driving with adaptive cruise control active, you select a target speed. The car then manages acceleration and braking to meet that target while also adapting to surrounding traffic.
When using adaptive cruise control, you are still responsible for maintaining focus and driving safely. The speed-keeping features exist to support you, but the responsibility of safe driving practice still lies with the driver.
Important
Before using adaptive cruise control
- Take the time to read everything the manual has to say about adaptive cruise control 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.
Managing speed and time interval to vehicles ahead
When you activate adaptive cruise control, a set speed value appears by the speedometer. This represents the target speed that adaptive cruise control tries to maintain. You can adjust the target speed with the steering wheel buttons.
If your car detects a vehicle ahead that's either slower than you or a bit too close, adaptive cruise control 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 target time interval to vehicles ahead using the steering wheel buttons.
Status and availability
Adaptive cruise control'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 adaptive cruise control in the driver display.
Note
Paused
In some situations, adaptive cruise control can be temporarily paused. This can happen when a driver decision is needed to resume driving with ACC, such as after coming to a stop. When it is paused, a message with instructions for resuming is typically shown in the driver display.
