User Manual - Page 149

For 2016 BMW 7 SERIES.

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Display
Warning of people or animals in
danger
If a collision with a person or an animal de‐
tected in this way is imminent, a warning sym‐
bol appears on the instrument cluster and in
the Head-up Display.
Although both the shape and the heat radiation
are analyzed, false warnings cannot be ruled
out.
Warning area in front of the vehicle
The warning area for the pedestrian warning
consists of two parts:
Central area, arrow 1, directly in front of the
vehicle.
Expanded area, arrow 2, to the right and
left.
With animal warnings, no distinction is made
between the central or expanded area.
The entire area moves along with the vehicle in
the direction of the steering angle and changes
with the vehicle speed. As the vehicle speed
increases, the area becomes longer and wider,
e.g.
Symbols
Symbol Meaning
Pedestrian warning
Animal warning
Symbol lights
up red.
Advance warning: intervene
actively by braking or mak‐
ing an evasive maneuver
Symbol flashes
red and a signal
sounds.
Acute warning: intervene
immediately by braking or
making an evasive maneu‐
ver.
The displayed symbol shows the side of the
road on which the person or animal was de‐
tected.
Prewarning
Prewarning for persons is displayed when a
person is detected in the central area immedi‐
ately in front of the vehicle as well as on the left
or right side in the extended area.
Prewarning for animals is displayed when an
animal is detected in the front of the vehicle.
The driver must intervene actively when there
is a prewarning.
Acute warning
Acute warning is displayed if a person or an
animal is detected in direct proximity if front of
the vehicle.
The driver must immediately intervene actively
when there is an acute warning.
Active Protection: if a collision seems to be un‐
avoidable, PreCrash functions are triggered.
Seite 149
Safety Controls
149
Online Edition for Part no. 0140 2 964 330 - VI/15
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