Evasive Maneuver
This is an Evasive Maneuver Warning (EMA) or Evasive Steering Assistance (ESA) indicator symbol. Working with Polestar‘s Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, ESA adds technical assistance to steering to aid in avoiding a collision. It effectively enhances a driver’s reflexes by adding extra steering torque and uses data from the vehicle’s front-mounted camera and radar sensors to calculate a safe path around the obstacle.
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Despite being somewhat joined at the hip, Volvo also EMA capability but a very different symbol. The company uses the acronym in a circle in red. Volvo not only says that steering is temporarily enhanced during an evasive maneuver, it says that the vehicle can perform the maneuver on its own if the driver does not respond.
Overall benefits of the system are to help the driver avoid frontal collisions with other objects, guiding the driver to keep a safe path even after swerving, reducing the risk of losing control during an emergency maneuver and initiating braking to reduce the overall severity of a crash.
With all this said, we certainly suggest examining the symbol after the maneuver is completed. Meaning, this light, much like stability control lights, can itself be a distraction at a time when the vehicle needs the driver’s full attention.
Cars are changing, and among those changes is the growing number of symbols and indicators that will invariably show up on your dashboard or instrument panel. Every year, new features are added to vehicles, each of which is accompanied by a new symbol or symbols and likely a new acronym.
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