Function
Pilot Assist helps provide more relaxed driving on long trips on highways or other major roads in an even flow of traffic.
Windshield module containing the camera/radar sensor
Monitoring distance
Monitoring side marker lines
The driver sets the desired time interval to the vehicle ahead. Pilot Assist monitors that vehicle and the traffic lane's side market lines using the camera and radar sensor mounted in the upper, center section of the windshield. It helps maintain the set time interval by automatically adjusting speed and by providing steering assistance to help keep your vehicle in the lane.
Pilot Assist's steering assistance is based on monitoring the direction of the vehicle ahead and the traffic lane's side marker lines. The driver can always override Pilot Assist and steer the vehicle to e.g., change lanes, etc.
If the camera and radar sensor cannot detect the lane's side marker lines, Pilot Assist will temporarily switch off the steering assistance until the lane's side marker lines become visible again and can be detected. However, the function's speed and distance monitoring will continue to be activated.
Warning
The color of the steering wheel symbol indicates the current status of the steering assistance function:
GREEN: steering assistance is active
GRAY (as in the illustration): steering assistance is deactivated
Warning
- Pilot Assist is designed to be a supplementary driving aid and cannot cover all driving situations, traffic, weather and/or road conditions.
- The driver should be familiar with all of the information in this article regarding Pilot Assist, including its limitations.
- Pilot Assist is not intended to replace the driver's attention and judgement.
- Pilot Assist must only be used where there are clearly visible traffic lane side marker lines on both sides of the current traffic lane. In other circumstances there is an increased risk of collision with surrounding obstacles that are not detected by the system.
- The driver is always responsible for steering the vehicle and maintaining a suitable speed and distance to the vehicle ahead and must intervene if necessary, even if Pilot Assist is being used.
Pilot Assist attempts to regulate speed smoothly but in situations calling for fast braking, the driver must apply the brakes. This applies to situations where there are considerable differences in speed or if the vehicle ahead brakes suddenly. Due to the limitations of the camera and radar sensor, the system may apply the brakes in your vehicle suddenly or not at all.
Pilot Assist is designed to follow a vehicle ahead in the same traffic lane at a preset time interval set by the driver. If the radar sensor does not detect a vehicle ahead, the vehicle will instead maintain the speed set by the driver. This will also be the case if a vehicle ahead accelerates and exceeds the set speed.
- Pilot Assist can follow another vehicle from a standstill up to a speed of approx. 125 mph (200 km/h)
- Pilot Assist can provide steering assistance from very low speeds up to approx. 87 mph (140 km/h).
Never exceed posted speed limits.
Warning
- Pilot Assist is not a collision avoidance system. The driver must react if the system does not detect another vehicle.
- Pilot Assist does not react to people, animals, stationary objects, small vehicles (such as bicycles and motorcycles), low trailers and slow moving, parked or approaching vehicles.
- Do not use Pilot Assist in demanding driving conditions such as city driving or other heavy traffic situations, in areas with intersections, in slippery conditions, when there is a great deal of water or slush on the road, during heavy rain or snow, in poor visibility, on winding roads, on highway on- or off-ramps or if the vehicle is towing a trailer, boat, etc.
Note
- Pilot Assist maintenance should only be carried out by a trained and qualified Volvo service technician.
- Pilot Assist regulates your vehicle's speed using the accelerator pedal and the brakes. Please be aware that there may be a faint sound from the brakes when the system is using them.
Pilot Assist overview
Controls
- Increase set speed or resume Pilot Assist set speed and distance (time interval) to the vehicle ahead
- Press to activate Pilot Assist or put it in standby mode
- Change from Pilot Assist to Adaptive Cruise Control
Reduce set speed
Increase the distance (time interval) to the vehicle ahead
Change from Adaptive Cruise Control to Pilot Assist
Reduce the distance (time interval) to the vehicle ahead
Function symbol
Distance and target vehicle symbol
Steering assistance symbol
Instrument panel
- Set speed
- Speed of the vehicle ahead
- Your vehicle's current speed.
See also the article "Pilot assist symbols and messages" for additional information.
Collision warning
- Audible warning signal
- Visual warning signal
- Monitoring distance with the camera and radar sensor
Pilot Assist can exert brake force that is equivalent to approximately 40% of the vehicle's total braking capacity.
In situations requiring more brake force than Pilot Assist can provide and if the driver does not apply the brakes, an audible signal and warning light will illuminate in the windshield to alert the driver to react.
Warning
Head-up-display*
If the vehicle is equipped with a head-up display, a flashing symbol in the windshield will alert the driver.