Pilot Assist and Lane Keeping Aid

Pilot Assist is a comfort function that can help you to keep your car within its lane and maintain a safe distance from vehicles in front of you. Lane Keeping Aid is a function which, in a similar way, can help you in some situations to reduce the risk of your car accidentally leaving its lane.

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Pilot Assist can help you to steer your car between the lane markings, as well as maintain a preset speed or distance to the vehicle ahead. This function can also help you to maintain an even line on the roadway by keeping track of the lane lines.

What does Pilot Assist do?

  • Can help to keep the car within its lane by assisting steering in some cases.
  • Can help to maintain a preset speed or the distance to the vehicle ahead by means of acceleration and braking operations.

Activate/deactivate Pilot Assist

16w17 - Support site - Pilot assist - Steering wheel symbol on the driver display

Scroll forward to Pilot Assist using the steering wheel arrow buttons. Press steering wheel button 16w17 - Support site - Pilot assist - Steering wheel symbol to start Pilot Assist.

 Note

With Sensus Connect software from May 2017, Pilot Assist cannot be activated if a trailer, bicycle rack or similar item has been connected to the car's electrical system.

How do I know that Pilot Assist is on?

Symbols in the car's driver's display let you know when the function is on.

When the steering wheel in the middle is gray, Pilot Assist is on but steering assistance is not active.

16w17 - P5 - Support site - Pilot assist not active
Gray steering wheel = Pilot Assist is on but steering assistance is not active.

When the steering wheel is green, Pilot Assist is on and steering assistance is active:

16w17 - P5 - Support site - Pilot assist active
Green steering wheel = Pilot Assist steering assistance is active.

Conditions for Pilot Assist

The following is required in order for Pilot Assist to help drive the car and contribute to steering assistance:

  • Pilot Assist must be on switched on using the steering wheel button.
  • The driver must have their safety belt on and the driver's door must be closed.
  • The side markings of the lane must be clearly visible and detected by the car. If the car cannot detect the lane markings, steering assistance may not operate/resume operation without warning.
  • The speed must not exceed 140 km/h (87 mph).
  • The driver must keep their hands on the steering wheel.

Tips when using Pilot Assist

To find out more about what Pilot Assist has to offer, information and useful tips can be found here.

Lane assist

Lane Keeping Aid (LKA2) can provide steering assistance and/or a warning to the driver when the vehicle is about to leave its lane unintentionally. The function is active between 65-200 km/h (40-125 mph) on roads with clearly visible side markings.

What does Lane Keeping Aid do?

  • Lane Keeping Aid can provide the driver with steering assistance, steering the car back into its lane and/or providing warnings using acoustic signals or steering wheel vibration.

Activating/deactivating Lane Keeping Aid

16w17 - Support site - Lane keeping aid function button

Activate/deactivate the function pressing the symbol for LKA in the center display's function view.

How do I know that Lane Keeping Aid is on?

Symbols in the car's driver display shows the function status.

16w17 - Support site - Lane keeping aid unavailable

Gray symbol in the driver's display means that the function is on but that the conditions for LKA have not been met.

16w17 - Support site - Lane keeping aid - White (active)

White symbol in the driver's display means that the conditions for LKA have been met and that the function is available.

16w17 - Support site - Lane keeping aid - Orange (started)

Orange symbol in the driver's display means that LKA provides steering assistance back into the lane and/or gives a warning with sound or vibration in the steering wheel.

Requirements for Lane Keeping Aid

For this function to provide steering assistance the following is required:

  • The car must maintain a speed between 65-200 km/h (40-125 mph).
  • The side markings of the lane must be clearly visible and detected by the car.
  • The driver must keep their hands on the steering wheel in order for Lane Keeping Aid to provide steering assistance.

 Warning

The functions described here are supplementary aids - they cannot manage all situations in all conditions.

The driver is always responsible for ensuring that the vehicle is driven in a safe manner and in accordance with applicable traffic rules and regulations.

 Note

Functions in brief: For more detailed information and important warnings regarding functions, etc., see the Owner's Manual for your car model.

Some of the systems are fitted as standard whilst others are optional. This may vary depending on market, model year and car model.

  1. 1 Pilot Assist can vary depending on model year. The following information applies to model year 2017.
  2. 2 Lane Keeping Aid

This article is applicable to

  • Vehicle model/model year