Is Brake Assist important?
Studies have shown that brake assist helps prevent thousands of crashes every year, making it a worthwhile purchase. Brake assist is so effective because it monitors your normal driving patterns, so it knows if it needs to kick in if you’re not paying attention to the road ahead.
What is Active Brake Assist in Mercedes?
Active Brake Assist can help to prevent accidents with vehicles in front and with crossing pedestrians or to minimise their consequences. If required, this creates additional braking pressure in order to avoid a collision where possible. If the driver does not respond, the system initiates autonomous emergency braking.
When does Active Brake Assist do not work?
If you are taking actionas if you are in control it does not work, if it thinks you are not in control it takes action. Compare to having a back seat driver who screams out stop because they think you do not see what’s happening in front of you.
Why does brake assist not work in snow?
Click to expand… It means the brake assist ‘sensor’ at the front of the car is dirty and therefore can’t sense distances to enable the system to work. It happened to me in the snow a couple of weeks ago. Clearing the snow cleared the ‘error’
When do I get an active break assist message?
If you get an Active Break Assist message on any Mercedes, you have a problem; your computer can’t spell… You must log in or register to reply here. Help needed… Radar/Sensor issues W205 C220D (65 Plate)
Can you use brake assist on a 2016 Mercedes Benz?
When I bought my 2016 the salesman said if you take action to stop the car the brake assist would not work. He said MB set it a wall of boxes as a demo for the sales people to use. The person before him started applying brakes and the car ran thru the boxes.
If you are taking actionas if you are in control it does not work, if it thinks you are not in control it takes action. Compare to having a back seat driver who screams out stop because they think you do not see what’s happening in front of you.
When I bought my 2016 the salesman said if you take action to stop the car the brake assist would not work. He said MB set it a wall of boxes as a demo for the sales people to use. The person before him started applying brakes and the car ran thru the boxes.
Click to expand… It means the brake assist ‘sensor’ at the front of the car is dirty and therefore can’t sense distances to enable the system to work. It happened to me in the snow a couple of weeks ago. Clearing the snow cleared the ‘error’
If you get an Active Break Assist message on any Mercedes, you have a problem; your computer can’t spell… You must log in or register to reply here. Help needed… Radar/Sensor issues W205 C220D (65 Plate)