2016 MERCEDES-BENZ S CLASS Owners Manual

These data can help provide a better under-
standing of the circumstances in which acci-
dents and injuries occur. NOTE: EDR data are
recorded by your vehicle only if a non-trivial
crash situation occurs; no data is recorded by
the EDR under normal driving conditions and no
personal data (e.g. name, gender, age and acci-
dent location) are recorded. However, other par-
ties, such as law enforcement could combine
EDR data with the type of personally identifying
data routinely acquired during a crash investi-
gation.
Access to the vehicle and/or the EDR is needed
to read data that is recorded by the EDR, and
special equipment is required. In addition to the
vehicle manufacturer, other parties that have
the special equipment, such as law enforce-
ment, can read the information by accessing the
vehicle or the EDR.
EDR data may be used in civil and criminal mat-
ters as a tool in accident reconstruction, acci-
dent claims and vehicle safety. Since the Crash
Data Retrieval CDR tool that is used to extract
data from the EDR is commercially available,
Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC ("MBUSA") expressly
disclaims any and all liability arising from the
extraction of this information by unauthorized
Mercedes-Benz personnel.
MBUSA will not share EDR data with others
without the consent of the vehicle owners or, if
the vehicle is leased, without the consent of the
lessee. Exceptions to this representation
include responses to subpoenas by law enforce-
ment; by federal, state or local government; in
connection with or arising out of litigation involv-
ing MBUSA or its subsidiaries and affiliates; or,
as required by law.
Warning: The EDR is a component of the
Restraint System Module. Tampering with, alter-
ing, modifying or removing the EDR component
may result in a malfunction of the Restraint Sys-
tem Module and other systems.
State laws or regulations regarding EDRs that
conflict with federal regulation are pre-empted.
This means that in the event of such conflict, the
federal regulation governs. As of February 2013,
13 states have enacted laws relating to EDRs. Information on copyright
General information Information on license for free and open-source
software used in your vehicle and its electronic
components is available on the following web-
site:
http://www.mercedes-benz.com/opensource
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Cockpit
Function Page
C
Steering wheel paddle shift-
ers 174
D
Combination switch 131

Instrument cluster
Displays
Function Pag e
C
Speedometer
D
Multifunction display 25 8

Warning and indicator lamps
Function Page
C
% ABS
316
D

Multifunction steering wheel
Function Page
C
Multifunction display 258
D
Sets the brightness of the
instrument cluster and the
multimedia system display 256

i In vehicles with multimedia system
COMAND you can find further information: R
on the multimedia system in the Digital
Operator's Manual R
on the DVD changer or single DVD drive in
the Digital Operator's Manual R
on the Voice Control System in the sepa-
rate operating instructions36
Multifunction steering wheel
At a glance

Center console
Function Page
C
Switches multimedia system
on/off (see the separate
operating instructions)
D
Adjusts the volume/mute
(see the separate operating
instructions)

Function Page
s
Vehicle and system settings
button (see separate operat-
ing instructions) Function Page
t
Multimedia system control-
ler (see the separate operat-
ing instructions)
i Information on the ECO start/stop function
for vehicles with PLUG_IN HYBRID operation
can be found in the "PLUG_IN HYBRID oper-
ation" section ( Y
page 252).38
Center console
At a glance