Picture with a car and 3 people

[Auto Addict]

Occasionally when I drive off, I get a picture of a car, and three people on the display.

This disappears quite quickly after about 100 yds.

Any ideas as to what it means.

This happens with both with only myself in the car, or myself and my wife.

 

[ZZZZ]

Rear passengers' seatbelts are unfastened.
Goes away after 30 seconds or 5mph (or is it 5 km/h?).

 

[Frosty149]

I get the same...
Always thought it was to do with the seat belts, I'll have a look at mine closely in an hour or so, you've got me curious!

 

[MissyD]

the pressure sensors seem to think someone is in one the seats

 

[flowrider]

It is showing you which rear seats are occupied. If all 3 are unoccupied they are all greyed out but if any seat has someone on it that seat position will be in bold.

 

[Auto Addict]

They are in bold, with no one sat in the seats.

 

[flowrider]

They are in bold, with no one sat in the seats.

Can you take a picture, just to be sure.

 

[MissyD]

Does it look like this?

 

[Auto Addict]

Similar, yes.

 

[Flyinspanner]

If you have shopping/laptop bag/ books etc on the seats, the microswitches will see it as a 'person' in the seat.....

 

[Auto Addict]

Nothing on the seats

 

[umblecumbuz]

Nanny cars!

 

[tode]

It's just the car checking for the presence/absence of passengers in the back and is normal.

Try putting your wife in the back with no seat-belt - one should turn red at start-up.

 

[umblecumbuz]

It's just the car checking for the presence/absence of passengers in the back and is normal.

Try putting your wife in the back with no seat-belt - one should turn red at start-up.

Probably the driver!

 

[John Laidlaw]

Totally normal this has come up lots before!

 

[Auto Addict]

Thanks for all your replies.

Just trying to get my head around a few things, never owned a Merc before.

 

[barry jones]

Thanks for all your replies.

Just trying to get my head around a few things, never owned a Merc before.

did it come with an owners handbook?

 

[EmilysDad]

did it come with an owners handbook?

Is that the long version of RTFM?

 

[Frosty149]

Is that the long version of RTFM?

Kama sutra

 

[Lord_Lucan]

Kama sutra

With the wife in the back that will take some doing no?