New Opel Corsa Assistance Systems: Safer, More Relaxed Driving

• Continuous development: IntelliLux LED Matrix Light now with 14 LEDs
• Democratising technology: Assistance systems from higher vehicle segments
• Higher safety all around: Active Lane Positioning, Side Blind Zone Alert, High-Resolution Rear View Camera

New Opel Corsa offers numerous advanced technologies and driver assistance systems that are more familiar to customers of pricier cars from higher segments. The adaptive, glare-free IntelliLux LED Matrix Light, which Opel Corsa brought to small car segment in 2019, is now even better and more precise, with 14 LED elements (seven on each side). Camera and radar-based driver assistance systems enable safer, more relaxed driving.

Glare-free IntelliLux LED Matrix Light: Revolutionary lighting for bestseller

Since 2019, the adaptive, glare-free, IntelliLux LED Matrix Light has demonstrated how Opel Corsa makes innovations in small car sector available to everyone. Engineers are continuously working on further developments and new Opel Corsa benefits from this commitment. Fourteen individually controllable LED elements ensure a stadium-bright driving experience that now “cuts out” other road users even more precisely than before.

Outside urban areas, matrix headlights switch automatically to high beam. LED elements are controlled by a high-resolution front camera and continuously adapt light beam to traffic and the surroundings. Preceding or oncoming vehicles are simply cut out of light pattern, so their drivers are not dazzled, while Opel Corsa driver enjoys optimum night-time vision, creating additional time to avoid potential collisions with objects or animals.

Camera and radar: Advanced driver assistance systems

Corsa’s numerous advanced driver assistance systems, which enable safer, more relaxed driving, are based on camera and radar technology. Extended Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) recognises signs for speed limits and other road information, which are then displayed in Driver Info Centre. Active Lane Positioning, in combination with Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) system, precisely keeps the car in middle of travelling lane, driver only needs to keep his or her hands on steering wheel with a light touch. 

Side Blind Spot Alert (SBSA) uses ultrasonic sensors in front and rear bumpers to alert driver to presence of moving objects in blind spots either side and to rear of car. A warning symbol lights up in corresponding exterior mirror.

Using front camera and radar sensors, Adaptive Cruise Control automatically adapts gap between car and preceding vehicle by decelerating or accelerating according to distance selected by driver. If preceding car decelerates, Opel Corsa also slows down – with automatic transmission and electric drive even to a standstill, if necessary. If preceding car gains speed again, Opel Corsa also accelerates up to selected speed while automatically maintaining chosen safety gap.

Opel Corsa also offers a camera and radar-based automatic emergency braking system (Forward Collision Alert with Automatic Emergency Braking and Pedestrian Detection). Camera-based system operates at speeds from 5-85 km/h. If a vehicle or pedestrian ahead is approached too fast, system sounds a warning chime and displays a message in Driver Info Centre. If a collision is imminent, the braking system is prepared and, if necessary, emergency braking is deployed to avoid or, at higher speeds, minimise effects of a potential collision.

Drowsiness Detection recognises signs of potential driver drowsiness by monitoring steering behaviour and the duration of the journey, and warns the driver, via audio and visual signals at three levels, to take a break. 

Level of detected drowsiness is clearly displayed in a bar within the digital instrument cluster.

Opel Corsa helps driver into and out of parking spaces by various means:

• Parking Pilot (standard equipment at the rear) measures the distance to potential obstacles and gives audio-visual warnings of potential impacts.
• Flank Guard gives audio-visual warnings if the side of the car could touch or collide with an object, e.g. a post, or a wall, during low-speed manoeuvring.
• High-Resolution Panorama Rear View Camera: additional parking assistance; increases visibility by up to 180 degrees behind the car, enabling drivers to see traffic approaching from the right or left.