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Active City Brake
Active City Brake is a driving assistance system
that aims to avoid a frontal collision or reduce
the speed of an impact if the driver does not
react or reacts too late (brake application too
late).
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is system is designed to improve
driving safety.
It remains the driver's responsibility to
continuously monitor the state of the
traffic and to assess the distances and
relative speeds of other vehicles.
Active City Brake can in no
circumstances replace the need for
vigilance on the part of the driver.
Never look at the laser sensor through
an optical instrument (magnifying glass,
microscope...) at a distance of less than
10 centimetres: risk of eye injury.
Automatic braking occurs later than if
done by the driver, so as to intervene
only when there is a high risk of
collision.Principle
using a laser sensor and a camera located at
the top of the windscreen, this system detects
a vehicle running in the same direction or
stationary ahead of your vehicle.
When necessary, the vehicle's braking system
is operated automatically to reduce the speed
of impact or to help avoid a collision with the
vehicle ahead.
Conditions for activation
Active City Brake only operates if the following
conditions are met:
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he engine is running,
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he vehicle is in a for ward gear,
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o trigger the pre-collision alert :
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he speed is between 9 and 87 mph
(15 and 140 km/h),
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t
he difference in speed between your
vehicle and the one ahead is more than
about 9 mph (15 km/h),
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or braking assistance :
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he speed is between about 18 and
50
mph (30 and 80 km/h),
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t
he difference in speed between your
vehicle and the one ahead is more than
about 18 mph (30 km/h),
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or automatic pre-collision braking:
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t
he speed is between about 6 and
50
mph (10 and 80 km/h),
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t
he difference in speed between your
vehicle and the one ahead is more than
about 6 mph (10 km/h),
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t
he braking assistance systems (ABS,
eB
FD, e
B
A) are not faulty,
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he trajectory control systems (TRC, DSC)
are not deactivated or faulty,
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he vehicle is not in a tight corner,
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he system has not been triggered during
the previous 10 seconds.
Safety
