Kia Automobile - Driving your vehicle

Driving your vehicle
Before driving. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
• Before entering vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
• Necessary inspections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
• Before starting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4
Key positions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
• Illuminated ignition switch. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
• Ignition switch position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-6
Engine start/stop button . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
• Illuminated engine start/stop button. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
• Engine start/stop button position. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-8
Starting the engine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-11
• Starting the engine with an ignition key. . . . . . . . . . 5-11
• Starting the engine with a smart key . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-12
Automatic transaxle. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
• Automatic transaxle operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-14
• Good driving practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-19
Brake system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
• Power brakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-20
• Parking brake . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-22
• Anti-lock brake system (ABS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-24
• Electronic stability control (ESC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-26
• Hill-start assist control (HAC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-29
• Vehicle stability management (VSM) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-30
• Good braking practices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-32
Cruise control system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
• To set cruise control speed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-33
• To increase cruise control set speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34
• To decrease the cruising speed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-34
• To temporarily accelerate with the cruise
control on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-35
• To cancel cruise control, do one of the following . . . 5-35
• To resume cruising speed at more than
approximately 25 mph (40 km/h) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-36
• To turn cruise control off, do one of the following. . . 5-36
Active ECO system. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-37
• Active ECO operation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-37
• When active ECO is activated . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-37
• Limitation of active ECO operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-37
Drive mode integrated control system . . . . . . . . . 5-38
• Drive mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-38
Blind spot detection system (BSD) . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-40
• BSD (Blind Spot Detection) /
LCA (Lane Change Assist). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-41
• RCTA (Rear cross traffic alert) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-44
• Non-operating condition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-46
Economical operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-48
Special driving conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-50
• Hazardous driving conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-50
• Rocking the vehicle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-50
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