When Driving- Page 347

2021 Mazda Mazda3 Sedan Owners Manual

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When Driving
Customer Information and Reporting Safety Defects
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NOTE

In the following cases, the Forward

Sensing Camera (FSC) cannot detect

target objects correctly, and each

system may be unable to operate

normally.

The height of the vehicle ahead is

low.

You drive your vehicle at the same

speed as the vehicle ahead.

Headlights are not turned on

during the night or when going

through a tunnel.

In the following cases, the Forward

Sensing Camera (FSC) may not be

able to detect target objects

correctly.

Under bad weather condition,

such as rain, fog and snow.

The window washer is being used

or the windshield wipers are not

used when it's raining.

Ice, fog, snow, frost, rainfall, dirt,

or foreign matter such as a plastic

bag is stuck on the windshield.

Trucks with low loading platforms

and vehicles with an extremely low

or high pro

fi

le.

When driving next to walls with no

patterning (including fences and

longitudinally striped walls).

The taillights of the vehicle ahead

are turned o

.

A vehicle is outside the

illumination range of the

headlights.

The vehicle is making a sharp turn,

or ascending or descending a steep

slope.

Entering or exiting a tunnel.

Heavy luggage is loaded causing

the vehicle to tilt.

Strong light is shone at the front of

the vehicle (back light or

high-beam light from on-coming

vehicles).

There are many light emitters on

the vehicle ahead.

When the vehicle ahead is not

equipped with taillights or the

taillights are turned o

 at

nighttime.

Elongated luggage or cargo is

loaded onto installed roof rails and

covers the Forward Sensing

Camera (FSC).

Exhaust gas from the vehicle in

front, sand, snow, and water vapor

rising from manholes and grating,

and water splashed into the air.

When towing a malfunctioning

vehicle.

The vehicle is driven with tires

having signi

fi

cantly di

erent wear.

The vehicle is driven on down

slopes or bumpy roads.

There are water puddles on the

road.

The surroundings are dark such as

during the night, early evening, or

early morning, or in a tunnel or

indoor parking lot.

The illumination brightness of the

headlights is reduced or the

headlight illumination is weakened

due to dirt or a deviated optical

axis.

The target object enters the blind

spot of the Forward Sensing

Camera (FSC).

A person or object bursts onto the

road from the shoulder or cuts

right in front of you.

You change lanes and approach a

vehicle ahead.

When driving extremely close to

the target object.

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