Sentences with phrase «slower cars ahead»

There are many other driver - assistance systems available, from adaptive cruise control, which slows your car down to match the speeds of slower cars ahead, to automatic parking systems, which take much of the stress out of parallel parking.

A further innovation is a so - called haptic accelerator pedal, which vibrates when sensors detect a speed differential to a slowing car ahead to prompt the driver to slow down for added efficiency.

Not exact matches

The autosteer function keeps the car in its lane, reads road signs, drives as much over the speed limit as you ask, and slows down or stops if there is a slower vehicle or obstruction ahead.

Elliott's year - old Thunderbird was perhaps slower than the three cars ahead of him, but he was using their draft brilliantly.

«People watching the slow - motion disaster overtaking Europe don't want an emergency brake on immigration, they want control of the steering wheel so we can avoid the car crash up ahead.»

I'd noted from the window sticker that my test car was equipped with optional radar - guided adaptive cruise control (part of the $ 1,100 Safety package) and was curious how the system would deal with the manual transmission when traffic ahead forced the car to slow down.

Just two hours in and a rain shower caused early LMGTE Am leaders, AF Corse, to crash out with driver Sam Bird unable to see a group of slow moving cars ahead on a spray covered Mulsanne Straight.

I can kind of tell that this is going to happen ahead of time because when I step on the gas I will have a bit more power than usual (I'd be going at like 30 - 35 mph at this point, tap the gas and the car will power forward) then when I go to slow down / stop the RPMs will drop below 1k and give out.

It helps maintain an adjustable speed and set distance between you and the car ahead, warning you if you need to slow down.

Monitors your speed and distance between you and the car ahead, and can let you know if you need to slow down.

It watches two cars ahead, monitoring your speed and distance, and when it detects sudden deceleration, it gives you a heads up to slow down.

The car travels at its set speed until the radar detects a car in the lane ahead and slows down to match its speed.

It's a little eerie having the car slow down or speed up depending on the speed of the car ahead, but the system worked well during our testing.

This system lets you set the speed, but will slow down the car if its radar detects a car in the lane ahead.

At times, coming up a car ahead with the ACC set to maximum following distance, rather than slowing gradually, the initial braking felt abrupt to the passenger.

This one was equipped with adaptive cruise control, which matches the speed of slower traffic up ahead and can bring the car to a full stop if needed.

It maintains a pre-set speed like all cruise control systems do, but it automatically adjusts the car's speed if it detects slower traffic ahead.

It watches two cars ahead, monitoring your speed and distance, and when it detects sudden deceleration, it gives you a heads - up to slow down.

It monitors your speed and distance between you and the car ahead and can let you know if you need to slow down.

The system is able to keep the car at a correct distance behind slower vehicles ahead automatically and can also follow them in their lane at a speeds from 0 of up to 200 km / h.

Lacking from the Countryman's arsenal of tech was adaptive cruise control, which would have automatically slowed the car when I caught up with traffic ahead.

Adaptive cruise control, which matches speeds with slower traffic ahead, works well, bringing the Stelvio all the way down to a stop when cars ahead stop.

Of course, the Active Distance Assist Distronic system can use a radar sensor to detect a car ahead and slow its preset speed to match and maintain a safe following distance.

On the highway, an adaptive cruise control system can slow the vehicle to maintain a safe following distance behind a car ahead.

Adaptive cruise control uses forward radar to track cars ahead, matching speeds when traffic is slower than your set speed.

While regular cruise control holds the car at a steady speed until the driver intervenes, ACC will speed or slow the vehicle based on the position of the cars ahead of it.

The forward emergency braking can be somewhat overzealous - when a car is slowing down to make a turn ahead of you and you keep going at speed anticipating it moving out of your way, I've had the car brake itself somewhat abruptly several times.

On the highway, the Sonata's main driver aids worked well: Adaptive cruise paced the car ahead, slowed, stopped and restarted.

A car ahead would slow for an accident or ice on the road and report the slowdown to cars behind.

The adaptive cruise isn't the full - speed variety and will disable itself if the car ahead slows below about 15 to 20 mph.

I'm disappointed this car doesn't have adaptive cruise control, a system which automatically matches speeds with slower traffic ahead.

Adaptive Cruise Control in the Range Rover Sport, automatically keeping distance from slower vehicles ahead, helped ease the long highway miles, although I found on curvier roads the system was prone to misidentifying which cars were actually in the the lane ahead of me.

The car will be the first Ford with an adaptive cruise control that features stop - and - go functionality, literally slowing the car to a full stop if traffic ahead comes to a halt, and resuming at the set speed as it picks up again.

With Distance Control Assist, the vehicle slows down for you, keeping the right amount of distance between you and the car ahead, reducing stress while making the drive safer.

The S8 followed the car ahead like it was on an elastic band, giving some smooth acceleration when the car sped up, then dropping back when it slowed down.

With the car's speed set at slightly over the limit to keep up with the flow of traffic, the adaptive cruise control used its radar to match the speeds of slower traffic up ahead.

When equipped with the CVT, the Corolla hatch also features standard full - speed adaptive cruise control that can bring the car to a complete stop if traffic ahead slows down.

With Stop and Go, the new system keeps the car a fixed distance ahead, even in slow moving stop and go traffic situations, bringing the car to a complete stop.

I was able to set the speed, and let the car handle braking for slower traffic ahead, not touching the pedals for many miles of travel.

Intelligent cruise control automatically slows the car if it's too close to the vehicle ahead.

As traffic crept along, the S550 Hybrid kept reasonably close to the car ahead, slowing and starting as needed.

A pre-crash safety system also detects cars or pedestrians ahead and applies the brakes if you're too slow to react or don't brake hard enough to avoid a crash.

Should the car ahead suddenly slow down, EyeSight analyzes the closing speed, and will sound an alert and flash a visual warning if there is danger of a collision.

If traffic is slowing ahead, the car engages the transmission to make use of its regenerative braking.

On the highway, if the car ahead puts on its right turn signal and slows down because its driver wants to exit, the ACC stop & go function recognizes this fact thanks to the camera image and because it can read the exit from the route data supplied by the navigation system.

On long motorway journeys, you'll appreciate Adaptive Cruise Control, which drives the car at a set speed, slows down when it closes the gap with the car ahead, and accelerates again when the road is open.

The system calculates the car's speed and trajectory and if there might be a problem looming ahead, then alerts the driver if he needs to change course or slow down.

When I overtook slower traffic, the system matched the speed of the cars ahead.

Speaking of stop - and - go, I also experienced an issue with the parking proximity sensor system beeping alerts when I got too close to the car ahead in slow, heavy traffic.

Upping the tech features in this Elantra — and the price — was what Hyundai calls the Ultimate package, bringing in dynamic headlights that point into turns, adaptive cruise control which automatically matches speeds with slower traffic ahead, and a lane - keeping assist system to keep the car from drifting across lane lines.