BENDIX Wingman Fusion FLR-21 Service Data page 4

FEATURES OF THE BENDIX
Vehicle Equipped with the Bendix
Wingman Fusion System
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NOT TO SCALE
Figure 3 – Bendix Wingman
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ACTIVE CRUISE CONTROL WITH BRAKING
The active cruise control with braking feature is an
additional upgrade of ordinary cruise control. When using
cruise control, the Bendix
Assistance System (Fusion) will maintain the set speed,
and will also intervene – as needed – to help maintain a
set following distance behind a detected forward vehicle.
Using the Bendix FLR-21
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front of the vehicle – with a range of approximately 500 ft
(152 m) – the Fusion system reacts to detected forward
vehicles in the same lane, traveling in the same direction.
See Figure 3.
The active cruise control with braking feature is designed to
help maintain a set following distance between the vehicle
and a detected forward vehicle when cruise control is set.
See the striped "Radar Beam" area in Figure 3.
Once cruise control is set and the system is maintaining a
set following distance between the vehicle and the forward
detected vehicle, if the forward detected vehicle slows down
below the cruise control's set speed, the Fusion system
will intervene and, as necessary, in this order:
(a) reduce the engine throttle; then
(b) apply the engine retarder; then
(c) apply the foundation brakes
in an attempt to maintain the set following distance behind
the vehicle ahead.
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WINGMAN
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Windshield-mounted
Camera
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The DARK GRAY area approximates the
zone where the Wingman Fusion system
is ready to alert – and intervene with the
vehicle's brakes – as long as the vehicle
is traveling above 15 mph / 24 kph.
Fusion Driver Assistance System Intervention Zone
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Wingman Fusion
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Radar Sensor mounted to the
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FUSION SYSTEM
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Front Bumper-
mounted Radar
NOTE: If during the intervention it is necessary to apply
the foundation brakes, or the vehicle speed falls below
the minimum cruise speed allowed, the vehicle will
not automatically resume the cruise control set speed.
Driver
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EXCEPTION: It is possible that some Fusion applications
allow the cruise control to automatically resume after
the Fusion system applies the foundation brakes during
adaptive cruise. The driver is able to override the auto
resume feature by manually activating the brake pedal.
If the vehicle ahead slows below the cruise control's set
speed, but then accelerates away – and the Fusion system
did not need to use the foundation brakes – the system will
automatically accelerate back to the original cruise control
set speed and maintain a set following distance behind any
detected forward vehicles.
Because the Bendix
along with normal cruise control, all the typical features
built into cruise control work as usual. For example, limits
imposed by factory-set road speed governors, etc. are fully
supported by the Fusion system.
Radar Beam
Detected Forward
Vehicle
The STRIPED area approximates the
zone where the Active Cruise with
Braking feature is ready to alert – and
intervene with the vehicle's brakes –
when the cruise control is set.
Wingman Fusion system operates
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