Does this technology help prevent collisions with animals?
It certainly should do with a deer as this is quite a big animal.
But, unless the deer you hit last year jumped on to the road right in front of you (in which case, it being misty was irrelevant), you were driving too fast for the conditions. In misty or foggy conditions, your speed should be dictated by how far you can see. I say this because I personally wouldn't rely on a system like this to allow me to drive faster in misty or foggy conditions that I would consider safe otherwise.
I had a look at Citroen's website, 'Pedestrian/Cyclist avoidance technology' is not mentioned re the C5 X. Listing the technology features, 5 separate sections are given over to 'Highway Driver Assist' (this is given most prominence), 'Rear Cross Traffic Alert', 'Long-Range Blind Spot Monitoring', 'Top 360 Vision', and 'Proximity Keyless Entry And Start'. In a few lines of text under this, 'Collision Risk Alert' is mentioned as one of the features in addition to the above, but the wording suggests that it won't actually do anything other than warn you, i.e, you are still going to have to stop/brake/steer around whatever it might be.
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