Mercedes-Benz GLC : Driving and driving safety systems / Operating Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC
Requirements:
- The electric parking brake is released.
- ESP® is activated and is not intervening.
- The transmission is in position
.
- The driver's door is closed.
- Check of the radar sensor system has been
successfully completed.
- Parking Assist PARKTRONIC is not being
used to park the vehicle or to exit from a
parking space.
- DSR is deactivated.
- Vehicles with Off-road package: the
drive program is deactivated.

To operate Active Distance
Assist
DISTRONIC: press the rocker switches on
the steering wheel control unit up or down to
the desired position.
Activating/deactivating Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC
Press the
button.
Activating Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC
To activate without a
stored speed: press
rocker switch
up
or down
, or
select
with the left rocker
switch.
or
To activate with a
stored speed: select
with the left
rocker switch.
Remove your foot from
the accelerator pedal.
The current speed is stored and maintained
by the vehicle.
Adopting a detected speed limit
Activate Active Distance
Assist DISTRONIC.
If a traffic sign has
been detected and is displayed
in the instrument cluster: select
with the left rocker switch.
The maximum permissible speed on the traffic
sign is adopted as the stored speed. The
vehicle adapts its speed to that of the vehicle
in front, but only up to the stored speed.
The system may be impaired or may not function
in the following situations, for example:
In snow, rain, fog, heavy spray, if there is
glare, in direct sunlight or in greatly varying
ambient light...
Activate Active Distance Assist DISTRONIC
and remove your foot from the brake pedal.
Select
with the left rocker switch.
or
Depress the accelerator
pedal briefly and
firmly...
Other information:
Electronic control units are installed in your vehicle.
Control units process data which, for example,
they receive from vehicle sensors, generate
themselves or exchange between themselves.
Some control units are required for the safe
operation of your vehicle, some assist you when
driving, such as driver assistance systems, while
others enable comfort or infotainment functions...
Remove protective film
from the mainte‐
nance display on the tip of the newly instal‐
led wiper blades.
When the color of the maintenance display
changes from black to yellow, the wiper blades
should be replaced.
The duration until the color changes varies
depending on the usage conditions...