Cadillac 2005 STS Owner's Manual page 165

Intellibeam Intelligent High-Beam
Headlamp Control System
If your vehicle has this feature, be sure to read this
entire section before using it.
Intellibeam is an enhancement to your vehicle's
headlamp system. Using a digital light sensor on your
rearview mirror, this system will turn the vehicle's
high-beam headlamps on and off according to
surrounding traffic conditions. This feature will help
improve forward visibility during nighttime driving
by initiating high-beam usage as ambient lighting, as
traffic conditions allow.
The Intellibeam system will turn your high-beam
headlamps on when it is dark enough, there is no other
traffic present, and the Intellibeam system is enabled.
Enabling Intellibeam
To enable the Intellibeam System, turn the exterior lamp
control to AUTO, with the turn signal/multifunction
lever in its neutral position. The High-Beam On Light will
appear on the instrument panel cluster when the
high-beams are on. See Highbeam On Light on
page 3-68.
Driving with Intellibeam
Intellibeam will only activate your high-beams when
driving over 10 mph (16 km/h).
The high-beam headlamps will remain on until any of
the following situations occur:
•
The system detects an approaching
vehicle's headlamps.
•
The system detects a preceding vehicle's taillamps.
•
The outside light is bright enough that high-beam
headlamps are not required.
•
The high-beam headlamps are manually turned on
or you use the flash-to-pass feature. See Headlamp
High/Low-Beam Changer on page 3-9 and
Flash-to-Pass on page 3-13.
When either of these conditions occur, the
Intellibeam feature will be disabled until the
high-beam stalk is returned to the neutral position.
•
The exterior lamp control is turned to any setting
except AUTO.
When this occurs, Intellibeam will be disabled until
the control is turned back to the AUTO position.
•
The Intellibeam system is indefinitely disabled at
the rearview mirror.
•
The vehicle's speed drops below 5 mph (8 km/h).
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