Vauxhall ASTRA, Owner'S Manual

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182 Driving and operating
A vehicle ahead is indicated by
control indicator
A
.
If a vehicle directly ahead is
approached too quickly, a warning
chime and alert in the Driver
Information Centre is provided.
Additionally the driver gets notified by
a flashing red LED stripe which is
projected on the windscreen in the
driver's field of view.
A precondition is that forward collision
alert is not deactivated by pressing
V
.
Activation
Forward collision alert operates
automatically above 5 mph, if it is not
deactivated by pressing
V
, see
below.
Selecting the alert sensitivity
The alert sensitivity can be set to
near, medium or far.
Press
V
, the current setting is shown
on the Driver Information Centre.
Press
V
repeatedly to change the
alert sensitivity. The selected setting
is also displayed in the Driver
Information Centre.
Alerting the driver
The vehicle ahead control indicator
A
illuminates green in the instrument
cluster when the system has detected
a vehicle in the driving path.
The control indicator
A
changes to
yellow when the distance to a
preceding moving vehicle gets too
small or when approaching another
vehicle too rapidly.