BMW 5 Series: PDC Park Distance Control
The concept
In addition to the PDC Park Distance Control, the backup camera, can be switched on.
PDC supports you when parking. Objects that you are approaching slowly in front of or behind your vehicle are indicated with:
▷ Signal tones.
▷ Visual display.
Measurement
Measurements are made by ultrasound sensors in the bumpers.
The range is approx. 6 ft/2 m.
An acoustic warning is first given:
▷ By the front sensors and the two rear corner
sensors at approx. 24 in/60 cm.
▷ By the rear middle sensors at approx. 5 ft/
1.50 m.
- System limits
- Switching on automatically
- Switching off automatically
- Switching on/off manually
- Signal tones
- Visual warning
- Display on the Control Display
- Malfunction
Displays in the instrument cluster
Indicator lamp
Depending on how the vehicle is
equipped,
the indicator lamp in the instrument
cluster indicates whether the system is
switched on.
Desired speed
▷ The marking lights ...
System limits
Check the traffic situation as well
PDC cannot serve as a substitute for the
driver's personal judgment of the traffic situation.
Check the traffic situation around the vehicle
with your own ey ...
See also:
Programming HomeLink for Canadian
customers
Prior to 1992, D.O.C. regulations required handheld
transmitters to stop transmitting after 2 seconds.
To program your hand-held transmitter to
HomeLink , continue to press and hold the
HomeLink b ...
Vehicle security system activation
The vehicle security system will give the following
alarm:
● The headlights blink and the horn sounds
intermittently.
● The alarm automatically turns off after approximately
50 second ...
Introduction
City Safetyâ„¢1 is a support system designed to help the driver avoid low speed
collisions when driving in slow-moving, stop-and-go traffic.
City Safety™ is not active if your vehicle’s speed i ...
