Rear Traffic Alert
Part of the IQ.DRIVE safety-enhancing and intelligent technologies
Rear Traffic Alert is a safety-enhancing feature that helps drivers avoid collisions when reversing. It can detect cross traffic behind the vehicle and alert the driver with a chime and warning indicator. If the driver doesn’t respond to the warnings and a potential collision is detected, the system will engage the brakes to help avoid a collision.
Collision avoidance
Ability to detect obstacles or cross traffic
Rear Traffic Alert can detect cross traffic behind the vehicle when reversing, and alert the driver with a chime and warning indicator. If a potential collision is detected, the system can even engage the brakes to help avoid a collision.
Ease of use
Once enabled, always enabled.
The system can be turned on in the assist systems menu in the instrument cluster with the steering wheel controls or from the infotainment system. Once enabled, it will be on every time the ignition is turned on. This makes it easy for drivers to use the system without having to remember to turn it on manually every time they drive.
Wide monitoring area
A greater degree of awareness
The system can detect vehicles in a wide monitoring area behind the vehicle, which provides drivers with a greater degree of awareness of their surroundings and can help them make safer driving decisions.
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