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What Is Adaptive Cruise Control?
Adaptive cruise control is an advanced form of cruise control that can increase or slow vehicle speeds to maintain a programmed distance from the car ahead set by the driver.
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What Is Automatic Climate Control?
Automatic climate control activates the vehicle’s climate system upon start. Fans blow cooled or heated air through the vents to reach preset temperatures.
This feature is doubly practical during extreme weather when initiated with a vehicle’s remote start function in advance.
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What Is Android Auto?
Android Auto is an app or skill (in the case of Android Auto version 10 and later) which can integrate your Google Android OS-powered smartphone into your vehicle’s infotainment system, mirroring the phone’s screen on the car’s multimedia display.
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What Is a Blind-Spot Monitor?
Blind-spot monitoring (BSM) is an active driver aid/safety device with the ability to detect what your eyes may miss, issuing a warning as a vehicle approaches from behind in an adjoining lane.
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What Is Bang & Olufsen Premium Audio?
Bang & Olufsen Premium Audio is a high-end audio system from an electronics manufacturer whose sound systems are available in modern luxury cars from multiple manufacturers, including Audi, Lamborghini, Bentley, Aston Martin, Ford, and Genesis.
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What Is a Backup Camera?
A backup camera is a video camera on the rear of an automobile, connected to a monitor in the driver’s view.
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What Is Level 3 Charging?
Level 3 charging, also known as DC fast charging, is the quickest current form of charging an electric vehicle (EV) or plug-in hybrid (PHEV).
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What Is Electrification?
Electrification involves adding electrical motors to a vehicle’s driveline. The development of gasoline-electric hybrids, plug-in hybrids, battery-electric vehicles, and hydrogen…
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What Is Infotainment?
Infotainment is a word blending the sound and meaning of “Information” and “Entertainment.” Usually refers to the audio and navigational system…
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What Are Car Specs?
Car specs (short for “specifications”) provide a snapshot of a vehicle’s essential details. You can find this information on an…