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Audi
adaptive
cruise
control
and
braking
guard
You
can
set any speed between 20 mph and
95
mph (30 and
150
km/h).
Indicator lamps and messages in
the
instrument
cluster display inform you about the
current
sys
-
tem status and settings.
Switching Audi adaptive cruise
control
on
•
Pull
the lever
toward you
into
position
@
¢
fig. 96.
ACC
standby
appears in
t
he
instru-
ment cluster d isplay.
Setting the speed and
activating
regulation
•
To set the current speed, press
the
!SET
I
button
¢
page 11, fig. 4.
The
set speed is shown in the
tachometer
@
and is also shown briefly in the
display
@
¢
fig. 97
.
Switching Audi
adaptive
cruise
control
off
•
Push the lever away from you
into
position
@
until
it clicks
into
place
.
The message
ACC
off
appears.
@
Indicator
lights
II-
Adaptive cruise control
is
switched on. No
vehicles are detected up ahead. The stored speed
is mainta ined
.
•
- A moving vehicle is detected up ahead
.
The
adapt ive cruise control system regulates the
speed and distance to the moving vehicle ahead
and accelerates/brakes
automatically
.
•
- When automatic
braking
is not able to keep
enough d istance to a previously detected moving
vehicle up ahead, you must take control and
brake
c>
page 94
,
Request for driver interven-
tion
.
©
Display
If adaptive cruise contro
l
is not shown in the dis-
p lay, you can call it
up
with the
IRESETI
button
c>page23.
Based on the symbo ls in the display, you can de-
termine if the system is maintaining a distance to
the vehicle ahead and what that distance
is.
No
vehicle -
No
vehicle ahead was detected
.
White vehicle
-
A vehicle ahead was detected.
92
Red
vehicle -
Prompt
for the
driver
to take action
c>page 94.
Both
arrows
on the
scale
©
indicate the distance
to the vehicle
ahead.
No arrow appears when
the
vehicle
is
on an open road and there is no object
ahead. If an object
is
detected ahead, the arrow
moves on the scale
.
The green
zone
on
the
scale shows
the
stored
dis-
tance
.
For information on changing
the
stored
distance, refer to
r:!;>
page 93
.
If the distance se-
lected
is too close or may soon become too close,
the arrows move into the red zone on the scale.
A
WARNING
Improper use of the adaptive cruise control
can cause collisions, other accidents and seri-
ous personal
injuries
.
-
Press ing the
!SETI
button when dr iving at
speeds below 20 mph (30 km/h), will auto-
mat ica lly acce le rate the veh icle
to
20 mph
(30 km/h), which is the minimum speed
that can
be
set.
(})
Tips
- If you switch the ign it ion or the adaptive
cruise control off,
the
set speed is erased
from the system memory.
-
The
electronic stabilization control (ESC)
and
the
anti-slip-regulation
(ASR) are auto-
matically
turned
on when
the
adaptive
cruise control
is
turned on
.
Both
systems
cannot be
turned off
if
the
adaptive
cruise
control
is turned on.
Changing the speed
Applies to vehicles: wit
h Audi
adapt ive cruise control
0
f
jJ
0
Fig. 98
Selector lever: chang ing the speed
co
N
0
:i:
..,
m
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