Just a heads up to people that have Distance Control Assist

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I was on my way back home yesterday on the 495 and I'm driving and all of a sudden I hear a beep noise the the DCA(Distance Control Assist) started to flash on the LCD screen in the cluster. It kept beeping and blinking on and off and beeping, then the IBA(Intelligent Brake assist) light started flashing too since DCA went off. I got worried so I turned those features off and started driving, then turned them back on later thinking everything was ok and then it started doing the same thing again.

I thought it was malfunctioning and I was about to shit myself lol. It turns out that DCA is sensitive to strong amounts of light. When I was driving back home the sun was setting very low in the sky and it was very very blinding. I noticed that it was only happening when the sensor unit on the front of the car was pointed towards the sunset. I looked this up in the instruction manual and it turns out it's normal and that it can sometimes be sensitive to extremely high amounts of light. When that happens, it temporarily disables itself to avoid false warnings.

So I was just giving a heads up to people that have this. If it happens it's normal. In most cases it will rarely happen to you. Ofcoarse the sun doesn't always effect it. It's just that the sun happened to be setting real low in the sky yesterday making it hard to drive on the highway.
 
Yes, has happened to me in the same conditions along with rain, it will shut down. It's a good feature.
 
^thanks for the heads up about the rain thing cause I haven't used it in the rain yet.

It scared the hell out of me yesterday lol. Good to know this is normal =]
 
NP, if anything affects the visibility of the ICC then it shuts down.
I've had it shut down in the rain lots of times.
It's good you brought this up for all the 2nd gen owners.
 
Snow in the sensor will cause it to shut down as well. Apparently somebody pushed a whole snowbank of snow into the front of my vehicle (wink wink) one day. When I tried to use the cruise it would not work. I got out of the vehicle and cleared the snow out and then it magically started working again.
 
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