Featured as an option for the first time in the new BMW 5 Series, Active Cruise Control with Stop & Go function offers the driver even greater convenience and effortless motoring.

This innovative system offers an additional, automatic distance hold function enabling the driver to cruise along smoothly on the freeway, keeping an appropriate, constant distance from the vehicle ahead – even in very slow, stop-and-go traffic.

Using this system, the driver is able to choose four distance settings. Once the distance from the vehicle ahead, as selected by the driver, is no longer maintained, the system smoothly adjusts the speed of the car to actual traffic conditions. Then, as soon as the lane in front of the driver is free again, Active Cruise Control returns the car to the speed originally selected by the driver, helping to enhance the driving experience in the new BMW 5 Series.

Active Cruise Control is even able to automatically reduce road speed down to a standstill as a function of traffic conditions, holding it in position as long as required.

The maximum deceleration provided by Active Cruise Control with Stop & Go is 4 metres/sec2. Should the driver be required to intervene for even more stopping power, for example because the vehicle ahead is slowing down in an extremely hard braking manoeuvre, he will be informed accordingly by visual and acoustic signals.

Active Cruise Control with Stop & Go uses the latest generation of radar sensors with an enlarged field of vision and stands out in particular through its broad coverage of the area directly in front of the car. To provide this coverage, it combines a long-distance sensor with a range of up to 150 metres with short-distance sensors able to detect vehicles ahead at a distance of up to 20 metres. The radar sensors are integrated smoothly and inconspicuously in the front end of the car.

In stop-and-go traffic, the system supports the driver by consistently maintaining an appropriate distance to the vehicle ahead, relieving the driver from the need to regularly apply the brakes in, say, slow and sluggish traffic. The driver nevertheless retains his responsibility and remains in control at al times, being required to briefly press down the accelerator or push the Resume button to re-accelerate the car and set off again after stopping for more than three seconds.

Even when the system is active, the driver is able to control his speed at any time simply by pressing down on the accelerator or applying the brakes.

Pressing down the brake pedal while driving, in turn, he is able to deactivate the system. And pressing the toggle switch used for determining the distance from the vehicle ahead somewhat longer, he is also able to switch over from cruise control with brake function to Active Cruise Control complete with Stop & Go and vice versa.

Then, with the flow of traffic allowing, the system starts to accelerate and move the car again, without requiring any action on the part of the driver. Only when the car comes to a standstill for more than 3 seconds is the driver required to press down the accelerator slightly in order to deactivate the system.

Active Cruise Control with Stop & Go uses the latest generation of radar sensors with an extra-large field of vision and excels in particular through its uniquely fast and precise detection of objects. In stop-and-go traffic the system makes things much easier for the driver by maintaining the same, constant distance from the vehicle ahead even at very low speeds, once the driver has pressed the accelerator down again after an interim stop.

Last but not least, the driver is able to influence Active Cruise Control himself at any time, even when the system is active, simply by pressing down the accelerator or brake pedal. And once the driver puts his foot on the brake pedal, the system is automatically deactivated.

Pricing:
Active Cruise Control with ‘Stop-and-Go’ Function
RRP: $4, 500