Mercedes-Benz GLA Series Operator's Manual page 186

184 Driving and parking
Activating the start-off assist
& WARNING Risk of skidding and having
an accident from wheels spinning
When you use start-off assist, individual
wheels could spin and you could lose control
of the vehicle.
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If ESP is deactivated, there is a risk of skid‐
ding and accident!
Make sure that no persons or obstacles
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are in the close vicinity of your vehicle.
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Deactivating ESP ( page 165).
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Move the steering wheel to the straight-
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ahead position.
Depress the brake pedal firmly with your left
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foot and keep it depressed.
Engage the h drive position (
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Select the sportiest available drive program
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B or C( page 144).
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Rapidly depress the accelerator pedal fully.
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Take your foot off the brake, but keep the
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accelerator pedal depressed.
The vehicle pulls away at maximum accelera‐
tion.
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Switch on ESP
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dure is complete. ESP
able to stabilize the vehicle if the vehicle
starts to skid or a wheel starts to spin.
Canceling the start-off assist
Remove your foot from the accelerator pedal.
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Reactivate the ESP
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Parking Assist PARKTRONIC
Function of Parking Assist PARKTRONIC
Parking Assist PARKTRONIC is an electronic
parking assistance system with ultrasound. It
monitors the area around your vehicle using mul‐
page 148).
tiple sensors on the front bumper and on the
rear bumper. Parking Assist PARKTRONIC shows
you the distance between your vehicle and a
detected obstacle visually and audibly.
Parking Assist PARKTRONIC is only an aid. It is
not a substitute for your attention to the sur‐
roundings. The responsibility for safe maneuver‐
ing and parking remains with you. Make sure
that there are no persons, animals or objects in
once the acceleration proce‐
the maneuvering area while maneuvering and
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will otherwise not be
parking in/exiting parking spaces.
In the standard setting, an intermittent warning
tone sounds from a distance of approximately
1.0 ft (0.3 m) to an obstacle in front and approx‐
imately 3.3 ft (1.0 m) to an obstacle behind. A
continuous warning tone sounds from a distance
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of approximately 0.7 ft (0.2 m). Using the
Early All Around
tem, the warning tones for front and side impact
protection can be set to sound at a greater dis‐
tance of approximately 3.3 ft (1.0 m) in front and
2.0 ft (0.6 m) on the sides (
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If Parking Assist PARKTRONIC is deactivated,
Active Parking Assist is unavailable.
setting in the multimedia sys‐
page 188).
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The Warn Early All Around setting is always
active at the rear of the vehicle.
Warn