Auto Start
For the sake of gas emission and fuel economic, many modern cars equipped with this function by default, in some stop-and-go traffic, it is very annoying to suffer each times of ignition noises. But if you have to wait for a few minutes before a level crossing, it is better to switch off your engines.
Auto Hold
Very convenient for most of the cases, so you don’t need to get busy with your parking brake, especially nowadays electrical parking brake. But it is better to switch off it when you are doing parking manoeuvres.
Speed limit regulation and Auto Cruising
In Audi Q3, there is a shorter stalk under the left indicator stalk, press a button on top of it to toggle between Speed Limiter mode and Auto Cruising mode, flick up and down for adjusting speed settings, push stalk forward for escaping, pull stalk towards yourself for resuming it.
Speed Limiter is very useful when you don’t establish a good intuition of your speed yet, but it may annoying you when you are leaving a low-speed road as you may too busy to try to escape it, floor your gas can help you escape it but obviously too harsh and awkward.
Auto Cruising, don’t try it in 99% day-to-day driving, the only thing you should know is how to switch off it as a novice driver.
Lane keeping
When you are driving with more than 40 mph, lane keeping assistance will be activated automatically by default. Push button on the end of left stalk in Audi Q3, read manual for
your cars to know how to switch on and off it.
You will see an icon show a car with both side lane markings in your dashboard, both side should be in green when you being a right middle of your lane, you will notice a white lane marking altered from green if you signalling left or right for lane changing, which means the lane keeping assistance deactivated for that side.
This feature assumes you are always in * Normal Driving Position, but you may need to slightly drift to one side for some reasons, like you are trying to buy some vision in a queue or a bend, some cars may also be set up with vibration feedback when you are not in the right middle, that is annoying and even dangerous in some cases, read your manual for fine tuning it.
Blindspot monitoring
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TPMS
You should check your tyres pressure regularly, especially before your long journey.