Driving Your Vehicle

Driver Attention Warning

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The driver should be careful in the following situations, because the system may not detect other vehicles or objects under certain circumstances.

- When a trailer or another vehicle is attached.
- The vehicle is driven in bad weather, such as heavy rain or snow.
- The sensor is contaminated with rain, snow, mud, etc.
- The rear bumper, where the sensor is located, is covered by a foreign object, such as a bumper sticker, bumper guard, bicycle carrier, etc.
- The rear bumper is damaged or the sensor is not in its default original position.
- The vehicle height is lowered or raised due to a heavy load in the luggage compartment, abnormal tire pressure, etc.
- When the temperature in the rear bumper area is high or low.
- When the sensors are blocked by other vehicles, walls, or parking posts.
- The vehicle is driven on a winding road or through a toll gate.
- The vehicle is driven near locations containing metal objects, such as construction zones, railways, etc.
- A stationary object, such as a guardrail, person, animal, etc., is next to the vehicle.
- When driving down or up a steep road with differences in lane height.
- When driving on a narrow road with many trees or bushes.
- When driving on a wet surface.
- When driving through a large open area with few vehicles or structures, such as a desert or rural area, etc.
- A large vehicle, such as a bus or truck, is nearby.
- When other vehicles are next to your vehicle.
- When another vehicle approaches very closely.
- When the detected vehicle is also moving backward as your vehicle moves backward.
- When changing lanes.
- If your vehicle starts and accelerates at the same time as a vehicle next to you.
- When another vehicle passes at very high speed.
- When a vehicle in the adjacent lane moves away from you by two lanes, OR when a vehicle two lanes away moves into the next lane toward you.
- The vehicle turns left or right at an intersection.

This device complies with Industry Canada license-exempt RSS standard(s).

Operation is subject to the following two conditions:

(1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and
(2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation of the device.
(3) Changes or modifications not expressly approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the user's authority to operate the equipment.

Test yourself

A quick Kia Optima DL3 quiz: every answer comes with an explanation and a link to the manual page.