Function
The vehicle's camera monitors the traffic lane's side marker lines and a distance monitor helps maintain the set time interval to the vehicle ahead.
Pilot Assist helps provide more relaxed driving in heavy, slow-moving traffic at speeds up to 30 mph (50 km/h) on highways and major roads.
Windshield module containing the camera/radar sensor
Monitoring distance
Monitoring side marker lines
The driver sets the desired time interval to the vehicle ahead. Pilot Assist monitors that vehicle and the traffic lane's side market lines using the camera and radar sensor mounted in the upper, center section of the windshield. It helps maintain the set time interval by automatically adjusting speed and by providing steering assistance to help keep your vehicle in the lane.
Pilot Assist's steering assistance is based on monitoring the direction of the vehicle ahead and the traffic lane's side marker lines. The driver can always override Pilot Assist and steer the vehicle to e.g., change lanes, etc.
If the camera and radar sensor cannot detect the lane's side marker lines or a vehicle ahead, Pilot Assist goes into standby mode.
When Pilot Assist is in standby mode and your vehicle comes too close to the vehicle ahead, the driver will be alerted by the Distance Alert function.
Warning
- Pilot Assist is designed to be a supplementary driving aid and cannot cover all driving situations, traffic, weather and/or road conditions.
- The driver should be familiar with all of the information in this article regarding Pilot Assist, including its limitations.
- Pilot Assist is not intended to replace the driver's attention and judgement.
- Pilot Assist must only be used where there are clearly visible traffic lane side marker lines on both sides of the current traffic lane. In other circumstances there is an increased risk of collision with surrounding obstacles that are not detected by the system.
- The driver is always responsible for steering the vehicle and maintaining a suitable speed and distance to the vehicle ahead and must intervene if necessary, even if Pilot Assist is being used.
Pilot Assist is designed to regulate speed smoothly but in situations calling for fast braking, the driver must apply the brakes. This applies to situations where there are considerable differences in speed or if the vehicle ahead brakes suddenly. Due to the limitations of the camera and radar sensor, the system may apply the brakes in your vehicle suddenly or not at all.
The default speed for Pilot Assist is preset to approx. 30 mph (50 km/h) and cannot be changed. If the vehicle ahead increases speed to over 30 mph (50 km/h) and pulls away from your vehicle, Pilot Assist will go into standby mode.
Note
- Pilot Assist maintenance should only be carried out by a trained and qualified Volvo service technician.
- Pilot Assist regulates your vehicle's speed using the accelerator pedal and the brakes. Please be aware that there may be a faint sound from the brakes when the system is using them.
Warning
- Pilot Assist does not react to people or animals, or small vehicles such as bicycles and motorcycles. It also does not react to low trailers, slow moving, parked or approaching vehicles, or stationary objects.
- Do not use Pilot Assist in demanding driving conditions such as city driving or other heavy traffic situations, in slippery conditions, when there is a great deal of water or slush on the road, during heavy rain or snow, in poor visibility, on winding roads or on highway on- or off-ramps.
Pilot Assist overview
Controls
- [
]: Press to activate Pilot Assist or put it in standby mode - Arrow key [ < ]: change from Pilot Assist to Adaptive Cruise Control (symbol (6) will also change)
- Reduce the distance (time interval) to the vehicle ahead
Arrow key [ > ]: change from Adaptive Cruise Control to Pilot Assist (symbol (6) will also change)
Increase the distance (time interval) to the vehicle ahead
Function symbols
Instrument panel
- Set speed
- Speed of the vehicle ahead
- Your vehicle's current speed.
Collision warning
Pilot Assist can exert brake force that is equivalent to approximately 40% of the vehicle's total braking capacity.
In situations requiring more brake force than Pilot Assist can provide and if the driver does not apply the brakes, an audible signal from the City Safety system will sound and warning light will illuminate in the windshield to alert the driver to react.
Head-up-display*
If the vehicle is equipped with a head-up display*, a flashing symbol in the windshield will alert the driver.