Cruise Control Lever - Mercedes-Benz G-Class Owner's Manual

be warned visually and acoustically. DIS-
TRONIC PLUS cannot prevent a collision with-
out your intervention. An intermittent warn-
ing tone will then sound and the distance
warning lamp will light up in the instrument
cluster. Brake immediately in order to
increase the distance from the vehicle in
front, or take evasive action, provided it is
safe to do so.
DISTRONIC PLUS may not detect narrow
vehicles driving in front, e.g. motorcycles, or
vehicles driving on a different line. Therefore,
always pay attention to traffic conditions
even when DISTRONIC PLUS is activated.
Otherwise, you may fail to recognise dangers
in time, cause an accident and injure yourself
and others.
If DISTRONIC PLUS is activated, the vehicle
brakes automatically in certain situations.
This can happen unexpectedly, especially
when towing or in a car wash. There is a risk
of an accident. In these or similar situations,
deactivate DISTRONIC PLUS.
If you want DISTRONIC PLUS to assist you,
the following activation conditions must be
fulfilled ( Y page 184) and the radar sensor
system must be operational.
General notes
DISTRONIC PLUS regulates the speed and
automatically helps you maintain the dis-
tance to the vehicle detected in front. DIS-
TRONIC PLUS brakes automatically so that
the set speed is not exceeded.
On long and steep downhill gradients, espe-
cially if the vehicle is laden or towing a trailer,
you must select shift range 1, 2 or 3 in good
time. By doing so, you will make use of the
braking effect of the engine. This relieves the
load on the brake system and prevents the
brakes from overheating and wearing too
quickly.
If DISTRONIC PLUS detects a slower-moving
vehicle in front, your vehicle is braked in order
to maintain the preset distance to the vehicle
in front.
If there is no vehicle in front, DISTRONIC
PLUS operates in the same way as cruise
control in the speed range between
30 km/h and 200 km/h. If a vehicle is driving
in front of you, DISTRONIC operates in the
speed range between 0 km/h and
200 km/h.
Do not use DISTRONIC PLUS on roads with
steep gradients.

Cruise control lever

To activate or increase speed
:
To set the specified minimum distance
;
LIM indicator lamp
=
To activate at the current speed/last
?
stored speed
To activate or reduce speed
A
To switch between DISTRONIC PLUS and
B
variable SPEEDTRONIC
To deactivate DISTRONIC PLUS
C
With the cruise control lever, you can operate
DISTRONIC PLUS and variable SPEED-
TRONIC.
X
To switch between variable SPEED-
TRONIC and DISTRONIC PLUS: press the
Driving systems
183
Z