2010 Mercedes S-Class Owner's Manual - Page 360
2010 Mercedes S-Class Manual
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358 Driving systems and cannot check the function of the Night View Assist Plus. When you have been made aware of a pedestrian, assess the situation by looking through the windshield. The actual distance between your vehicle and objects or pedestrians cannot be assessed properly via a screen display. Other objects apart from pedestrians may also be highlighted. Image on multifunction display When you switch on the Night View Assist Plus, the dial for the speedometer changes on the multifunction display. The speedometer dial is shown as a bar on the lower edge of the multifunction display. The line for main menus is no longer available. If you would like to change a setting using the steering wheel buttons, you must first switch off the Night View Assist Plus. Pedestrian detection The Night View Assist Plus detects pedestrians by means of specific characteristics, e.g. a human silhouette. Pedestrian detection is activated when Rthe Rthe G Warning! Controls in detail The pedestrian detection may be impaired or unavailable when Rpedestrians are obstructed fully or in part by other objects such as parking vehicles image is displayed incomplete or interrupted, e.g. by significant light reflection Rthe silhouette in the Night View Assist Plus Ra pedestrian's silhouette is not rich enough Night View Assist Plus is switched on in contrast compared to the background Rpedestrians are not in erected position but, vehicle speed is above approximately 6 mph (10 km/h) in darkness, e.g. on highways without road lighting for example, sit, crouch down, or lie Rdriving i Animals cannot be detected. Adjusting instrument cluster illumination If you change the brightness of the instrument cluster while the Night View Assist Plus is switched on, only the brightness of the multifunction display is changed. : Night View Assist Plus image ; Detected pedestrian = Frame ? Symbol for active pedestrian detection A Speedometer dial When pedestrian detection is active, symbol ? appears in the Night View Assist Plus image. Once a pedestrian is detected, that pedestrian is highlighted by frame =. X X Make sure the Night View Assist Plus is switched on. Brightening illumination: Turn knob : clockwise.