Forde Edge II owners manual page 85

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Lighting 3. The transmission is not in park (P) for Note:Typical road dust, dirt and water vehicles with automatic transmissions spots will not affect the performance of the or the parking brake is released for automatic high beam system . However, in vehicles with manual transmissions. cold or inclement weather conditions, you 4. The lighting control is in the autolamps will notice a decrease in the availability of position. the high beam system, especially at start 5. The headlamps are off. up. If you want to change the beam state independently of the system, you may The other lighting control switch positions switch the high beams on or off using the do not activate the daytime running lamps, multifunction switch. Automatic control will and you can use them to temporarily resume when conditions are correct. override autolamp control. Note:Modification of the vehicle ride height When switched off in the information such as using much larger tires, may display, the daytime running lamps are off degrade feature performance. in all lighting control switch positions. A camera sensor, centrally mounted behind the windshield of your vehicle, AUTOMATIC HIGH BEAM continuously monitors conditions to decide CONTROL (If Equipped) when to switch the high beams off and on. Once the system is active, the high beams The system will automatically turn on your will switch on if: high beams if it is dark enough and no other • the ambient light level is low enough traffic is present. When it detects the • there is no traffic in front of the vehicle headlights of an approaching vehicle, the • the vehicle speed is greater than tail lamps of the preceding vehicle or street approximately 32 mph (52 km/h) lighting, the system will turn off the high beams before they distract other drivers. The high beams will switch off if: The low beams remain on. • the system detects the headlamps of Note:If it appears that automatic control an approaching vehicle or the tail of the high beams is not functioning lamps of a preceding vehicle. properly, check the windshield in front of • vehicle speed falls below the camera for a blockage. A clear view of approximately 27 mph (44 km/h) the road is required for proper system • the ambient light level is high enough operation. Have any windshield damage in that high beams are not required the area of the camera’s field-of-view • the system detects severe rain, snow repaired. or fog Note:If the system detects a blockage, for • the camera is blocked example bird droppings, bug splatter, snow or ice, the system will go into low beam Activating the System mode until you clear the blockage. A message may also appear in the instrument Switch on the system using the information cluster display noting the front camera is display and autolamps. See Information blocked. Displays (page 98). See Autolamps (page 80). 82 Edge/Galaxy/S-MAX (CDQ) Canada/United States of America, enUSA, First Printing

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