Emergency Flashers; If Your Vehicle Has To Be Stopped In An Emergency - Lexus LS 500 2019 Owner's Manual

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7-1. Essential information
7-1.Essential information

Emergency flashers

The emergency flashers are used to
warn other drivers when the vehicle
has to be stopped on the road due
to a breakdown, etc.
Operating instructions
Press the switch to flash all of the turn
signal lights.
To turn them off, press the switch once
again.
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Emergency flashers

If the emergency flashers are used for a
●
long time while the engine is not running,
the battery may discharge.
● If any of the SRS airbags deploy (inflate)
or in the event of a strong rear impact, the
emergency flashers will turn on automati-
cally.
The emergency flashers will turn off auto-
matically after operating for approxi-
mately 20 minutes. To manually turn the
emergency flashers off, press the switch
twice.
(The emergency flashers may not turn on
automatically depending on the force of
the impact and conditions of the colli-
sion.)
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If your vehicle has to be
stopped in an emergency
Only in an emergency, such as if it
becomes impossible to stop the
vehicle in the normal way, stop the
vehicle using the following proce-
dure:
Stopping the vehicle
1
Steadily step on the brake pedal
with both feet and firmly depress it.
Do not pump the brake pedal repeatedly
as this will increase the effort required to
slow the vehicle.
2 Shift the shift position to N.
If the shift position is shifted to N

3 After slowing down, stop the vehi-
cle in a safe place by the road.
4
Stop the engine.
If the shift position cannot be shifted

to N
3
Keep depressing the brake pedal
with both feet to reduce vehicle
speed as much as possible.
4
To stop the engine, press and hold
the engine switch for 2 consecutive