Volkswagen zero-emission van window opens in 2019: BUDD-e brings the Internet of Things, and therefore the world aboard
Ten important facts - the BUDD-e in brief
Zero-emission Van is the first Volkswagen study on the basis of the new modular electrification kit (MEB).
BUDD-e has a four-wheel electric drive; the front electric motor makes 100 kW, the rear develops 125 kW.
Energy content of the battery (92.4 kWh) allows distances of up to 233 miles (EPA estimated real-world driving range) or 533 kilometers (NEDC).
Volkswagen realized with BUDD-e a new Human Machine Interface (HMI) as a seminal display and operating concept.
Active Info Display and Head Unit (infotainment system) merge into an interactive world.
BUDD-e shows the car in the Internet of Things. SmartHome allowed from the car to access the home.
Via Tablet and the Volkswagen "Travel App", the start of songs specifically exact route points are assigned.
The Gesture Control 2.0 enables intuitive operation of the car. Even doors can be opened by gesture.
New Touch system the multifunction steering wheel corresponds to the HMI and designed operation more intuitive than ever before.
Clean design breathes the history of the brand and takes the same time vehemently course for the immediate future.
In a nutshell - the world premiere of BUDD-e
Volkswagen opens at CES in Las Vegas a portal in the future. The Time Machine: a Zero Emission Vehicle - the avant-garde Minivan BUDD-e. The first model based on an equally new and progressive Volkswagen technology matrix for electric vehicles. Range of Vans: up to 233 miles (US / EPA estimated real-world driving range), respectively 533 km (Europe / NEDC). BUDD-e also displays with its iconic design charisma. A Volkswagen that breathes the history of the brand and takes the same time with precise clarity course on the immediate future. And that is a maximum cross-linked. BUDD-e is in this case the mobile interface between the world on board and the world outside. The car in the Internet of Things. With access to the home - Smart Home - or the world of work. Featuring the next-generation infotainment, which makes traveling interactive experience. BUDD-e convinces with a new type of operation and information processing. Everything happened more intuitive than ever. Touch and gesture control merge seamlessly; Switches and buttons disappear; individual displays merge into large-format infotainment panels; from analog to digital screens mirrors. The matrix of this new, interactive infotainment and operating systems catapults passengers aboard the Volkswagen study time gently forward - to the end of this decade.
Present meets the future. How much traveling will have already changed by the 2019 round, Volkswagen demonstrates at CES aboard BUDD-e. Four friends are fictional drive by car from San Francisco to Nevada, there to visit a legendary festival in the US. It is an interactive journey into the world of tomorrow. A world in which those shown in January 2016 Las Vegas with BUDD-e technologies of the future with high probability have become present. These technologies include the new conceptual matrix of the Volkswagen E-vehicles: the Modular electrification kit (MEB). With it, a purely electric range at the level of today's gasoline might be possible towards the end of the decade in the field of large-scale models for the first time. Parallel to reduce the time to charge the battery until then to around 30 minutes (80 percent capacity). It would be a breakthrough of electric cars.
BUDD-e - zero-emission Volkswagen a new generation
MEB - the new architecture for Volkswagen E-Vehicles: By BUDD-e Volkswagen has developed a minivan than any other car is previously linked as part of the internet with its environment consistent - the most communicative car of its time. Much of this Volkswagen is different. First, the Volkswagen Group model, the study was based on the new modular electrification kit (MEB). This architecture will change the electric cars and thus the automobile generally fundamentally. Because the MEB discards any ballast of fossil presence; he was consistently designed for electric cars. And so the body design, the interior design, the package and the driving characteristics of electric-powered Volkswagen will change significantly. The MEB advantages at a glance:
Large interior spaces with the smallest possible surface transport, in order to simplify the handling throughout the world.
High agility; powerful starting strength combined with maneuverability.
The new vehicle architecture optimally usable interiors with a positive sense of space.
Maximum functionality and networking with new display and operating concepts.
A high degree of consistent occupant protection.
A new, recognizable and own design identity by new freedoms in proportions and shapes - each MEB vehicle will be recognized as such.
Cost-effective access to e-mobility. At the same time long-range at the level of today's gasoline to use the car as a first vehicle can.
Drive data -. The first concept car MEB The at CES introduced in Las Vegas BUDD-e like sketched the first Volkswagen, which carries the genes of the new modular electrification kit in itself. The MEB results in a drive architecture that has been consistently tailored to the use of compact electric motors and high-performance batteries. The battery with an energy content of 92.4 kWh is housed flat and space-saving manner in virtually the entire vehicle floor of BUDD-e. It supplies two electric motors are driven on the both axes.
The front electric motor develops 100 kW (200 Nm), the rear 125 kW (290 Nm); as a mechanical system performance 225 kW are available.
With a fully charged battery gives a total range of up to 233 miles (US / EPA estimated real-world driving range), respectively 533 kilometers (Europe / NEDC). Thus the BUDD-e is on par with today's gasoline.
The battery is charged either via the plug or inductive interface. With a charging capacity of 150 kW (DC) the battery is charged to 80 percent after about 30 minutes.
The all-wheel-drive system of the study to a top speed of 112 mph / 180 km / h. The sprint to 60 mph completed the zero-emission van in brief 6.9 seconds.
. Package - perfect unused space that offers a completely new package perspectives to the MDBs, clarified in BUDD-e, the arrangement of the heating and air conditioner: The system has been fully integrated into the front car. This arrangement increases the space available in the front, perfect air quality (through bigger and better filters) and provides parallel for optimum acoustics (due to reduced fan noise).
Exterior dimensions -. To optimally utilized traffic area The 181.0 in / 4,597 mm long minivan uses the enclosed space perfectly and succeeds conceptually the laws of the MEB. Broad is the carriage 76.4 in / 1940 mm high 72.2 in / 1835 mm. Thus the BUDD-e is the length between the successful in Europe Volkswagen Vans Touran and Multivan T6; However, the study is broader than the two known series models. With both models, he also shares the practical tailgate and with the Multivan the right door. Due to its large width and a comparatively large wheelbase (124.1 in / 3,151 mm) with extremely short overhangs (front 27.3 in / 694 mm, rear 29.6 in / 752 mm) of BUDD-e shows very crisp proportions. A newly developed rear axle steering ensures a very compact turning circle of 37.7 ft / 11.5 m and improved dynamics.
Exterior design -. Aesthetic of function The designers of BUDD-e sat on the clear aesthetic function. Not least because of this Volkswagen Van features an iconic look - functional, progressive, clean, powerful and sympathetic at the same time. Lacquered is the study in the two-tone "Nevada White" (body below the edge of the window) and the golden "Phoenix Copper" (roof section).
Front end. With its front end design of BUDD-e makes it absolutely clear that this is a Volkswagen is on the way. Particularly concise style is the area around the VW logo: The completely held in transparent plastic body panel can be backlit in a variety of ways through intercultural lusted LED modules. This creates an outdoor ambience light is guided to the sides as a narrow strip once around the van. The headlight, also in LED technology, are far above. Left and right of them, the transparent surface is continued with there incorporated LED turn signals well into the skyline. Seen from the front, suggests the v-shaped design of the transparent surface is a bridge to the Volkswagen Ur-Van and Beetle, but transferred the subject with a completely new interpretation of the brand DNA in the future.
Silhouette. Character defining are in silhouette the flat and elongated roofline, the equally long bands of windows with glazed A-pillars, the 21-inch alloy wheels and the front to the side game wraparound light modules. Above this transparent filament like sketched a narrow LED strips arranged around the lead character as line and external ambient lighting once completely around the car. Especially clean the silhouette also impacted by the non-existent door handles and exterior mirrors, because these modules have been redesigned by electrical solutions. The viewer follows the lateral window band backwards, is a look at the exhibited D-pillars in the side towards the top also the LED tail lights with the band into running.
Heckpartie viewed from behind it becomes clear that flows through the data held in high gloss black D-pillar of the driving wind; The aerodynamic design reduces drag while optimizing the downforce on the rear axle. The clean and iconic design continues to this continued in the tail. There are large-scale and reminiscent of the Volkswagen Ur-Van tailgate, which extends into the D-pillar high-reaching LED strips of the rear lights and the circulating ambient lighting, giving the e-BUDD a very distinctive charisma. A hallmark of the Volkswagen electric cars is last but least, a C-shaped LED signature as edging the extendable Drop Box.
Interior design - mobile home. The architecture of the new modular electrification kit (MEB) completely changed the package of the car. And that is a through ball for interior designers. You can create a space which is hardly restricted at the front by driving technologies. Just showing BUDD-e. Because here the classical switchboard was together with the equally classic switch abolished without further ado. You will no longer be needed in the future of electric mobility. Rather, the design team has the tools - the human-machine interface of the next generation - arranged as a display area in a free-floating impression like a tablet in space in front of the driver. Lightness characterizes not only the driver's workplace, but the whole bathed in blue, silver and white surfaces interiors.
The car as a lounge. Whoever opens the door via gesture control from outside, enters. Into an interior which looks more like a lounge than on an automobile in the usual sense The car as a loft. To set up, as you need it. Driver and passenger seats are arranged on a wooden floor. The wood is no foil or veneer, but shows its original three-dimensional grain. The passenger is welcome to chat with friends in the back, it easily rotates to (such as the driver's seat) with an integral harness equipped seat. In the rear, there is a soft carpeted surface and two classic seating for the ride. Power BUDD e-pause, may further but also as a longitudinally disposed to the direction the seat surface are used. In a 34 inch large monitor is integrated into the side wall of the Volkswagen (see page 20). Also in the rear there is an atmosphere that is characterized by lightness. A lounge to be mobile at home. The interior shown with BUDD-e is not fiction. The front seats are based on today's series about solutions. The entire interior concept is designed to be realizable and affordable. And this is typical of Volkswagen.
Display and operating concept - revolution instead of evolution. The configured for CES zero-emission van is due to its particular technical features, a four-seater. Character defining for the interior of BUDD-e is also the completely new and progressive in every respect Human-Machine-Interface - the display and operating concept of tomorrow. Everything is extremely clean designed and intuitive to use. The entire technical architecture of infotainment and control systems and their design makes a jump as the SmartWatch is similar to the change keyboard cell phone to your smartphone or recently of the analog clock. Revolution instead of evolution.
With the interface design of the e-BUDD Volkswagen solves the classic separation between the instrument cluster in front of the driver and the screen of the infotainment system on the center console on. Both areas are brought together on the way to a comprehensive digitalisation and individualisation of the driver's workplace in a large panel surface and thus to a world of information.
Navigation Graph
The idea for the design and structure of the panels has been developed from the most fundamental feature of the cars out: driving. For behind the entire panel surface is a movable 3D navigation map. Their graphics - the visualization of travel - becomes a stylistic matrix of an interactive Human-Machine-Interface (HMI). To use two physically separated from each other come here displays that blend together visually and functionally. First, the Active Info Display as a freely programmable instrument cluster in front of the driver. Secondly, the Head Unit (HU) as formerly separately arranged screen of the infotainment system. In Active Infodisplay the conceptual focus is on the driver information; in the HU is the infotainment and information to all guests on board. Yet both areas form a visual and textual world, because the navigation graphics and arrangement of media content such as the display of Points of Interest (POI), playlists (audio), apps ("App Connect") and online services ("CAR -Net ") are configurable. In addition, it is envisaged that the priorities and content between the instrument cluster and the head unit can be replaced in the future.
Gesture, touch and voice control -. Interact intuitively is all via gesture control, touch function (displays and touch slider) and voice control. The driver can, in many cases between the various operating modes Select (multimodal interaction). And that happens intuitively. Despite the multitude of features Volkswagen pursues continue consistently the philosophy that information and controls must be self-explanatory. So it is sufficient in the case of the study, for example, to simply say "Hello BUDD-e" to activate the voice control's more. The system provides a consistently natural voice interaction it follows a natural language input as "Heating Please warmer". immediately the appropriate implementation by the car. Last but not least, the system is able to locate the currently speaking host and to respond appropriately. For example, if someone say left in the ground, "here it on too hot", BUDD-e could directly adjust the temperature in the zone of the speaker cooler The Active Info Display and the Head Unit (HU) in detail.:
Active Info Display
Information as a guide, the freely programmable instrument cluster of BUDD-e is an evolution of the first offered in 2015 by Volkswagen Active Info Displays. Central front of the driver three areas can be individually configured in the 12.3-inch display and curved on a surface.
Drive, Control, Consume. Range I, "Drive"
In the center of the Active Info displays are as part of a 3D map of the current track including buildings, points of interest (POI) and the navigation instructions displayed - the marginal portions of such navigation graphics simultaneously form the background of the entire display area II, "Control":. Links in Active Info Display are the ads for vehicle status and the assistance systems as well as the actual drive data of the on-board computer. Section III, "Consume": The infotainment content such as "Audio", "Messages", "calendar" or "Weather" are located right on the display Volkswagen calls this focus tailored to the route and primarily used by the driver arrangement as "driving mode. ". Alternatively, there is a "travel mode", in which, inter alia, the detailed routing in the Head Unit is postponed; here, the route guidance and planning also be used by the passengers always are housed at a constant level at the bottom of the display, the consumption indicator. (left), the speed indicator (center) as well as the information on the energy reserve and coverage (right).
Head Unit - information as an experience. The Head Unit, the einseh- for the front passenger and the rear occupants and operable range of the new HMI, is located in the middle of the dash panel. As outlined, the 13.3-inch display is graphical and software side to the Active InfoDisplay. In the basic graph the Head Unit displays the expand 3D map display of the navigation (including buildings). The area itself is equipped at the top level with freely assignable tiles. They are available in two sizes. Overall, up to eight tiles can be arranged side by side. Here are the "driving mode" for example "travel data", "Audio" (playlist / song / Cover) or "message" appears. Alternatively, there are as outlined the "Travel Mode", in which case the focus is on the graphically perfect staging of travel content A arranged in the middle of the head unit down home button leads unerringly at any menu level back to the highest menu level back. ,
Structured
As we know it from the smartphone software respectively -control, a menu tab is integrated in the screen above. Taking them on, they are quick access freely to important functions and menu items. In detail, there are, for example, menu items such as "Music", "Places", "Images", "Phone", "Connected Home" and "Videos". In bottom of the display also info from basic functions such as climate control and heated seats are integrated. Here also disposed is the important button to toggle between "Travel" and "driving mode" and to shift the current route display appears within the display. Last but not least is the right of the display a "In-Box" disposed of on the content may be sent other guests on board for Head Unit. The Head Unit is equipped with a proximity sensor system: As soon as a hand approaches, the display will continuously from display in the operating mode to scroll around in the
"Audio" by the playlist.
Info or entertainment, depending on the situation, it makes sense to switch to the "cruise mode" in the "Travel mode". Namely, when the travel content to the fore. In Active Info Display, the display case focused on specific navigation instructions while the representation of the distance to be driven to the right in the head unit moves and there is now, for example, with the now more fully illustrated Points of Interest corresponds - locating POI is characterized for all facilitates travelers on board and more striking. The standard displays in the Active Infodisplay provide the driver, however, continue with the most important for driving instructions. The change takes place via gesture control, the home button or via the likewise newly developed multifunction steering wheel.
e-Mirror
Electronic rearward visibility In this concept integrates the display of digital mirrors (e-Mirror). The image supply two outer cameras. The displays are designed multifunctional: About a control panel below the display, the driver can, for example, controlling the ambient lighting. If the Volkswagen, driver and front passenger can also open the electric doors and close on her panel. The display on the driver's side is 7.9 inches in size, the screen on the passenger side is 5.9 inches.
Multifunction steering wheel. 3.0 - intuitively
Another highlight is the completely switchless multifunction steering wheel - which in this form never before realized Feature. The smooth surface of the multi-functional areas working with haptic feedback. Activate each function by printing or swipe gesture. If you touch the surfaces of the driver receives a haptic tactile "Pre-Sensing", allowing it to locate the function. Once he now activates the function, it receives a haptic again stronger feedback. The operation is thus more intuitive than in today viable solutions. Compared to conventional systems, the operator is not also limited to the usual rocker, but possible over the entire surface of the operator island. The orientation facilitate tangibly raised forms in the buttons. In addition, the driver receives via the Active Infodisplay visual feedback to the selected functions such as "Audio":. In the corresponding window on the cover of just rehearsed song appears. At the same time the driver sees in this square window at the edges - in all four directions - symbols. These four symbols (Scroll up or down, sound and menu) correspond directly with the respective switching directions of the steering control surface. Even complex operating sequences are characterized intuitively feasible.
TouchSlider
Perceptible sensory functions such as volume control take place alternatively via a new touch slider. This is an evolution of 2015 presented at CES in Golf R TouchSystems. The new stage of development is characterized by a higher resolution of the sensor system; and feel the driver and passenger significantly higher than the optimized precision and efficiency of the system. So the TouchSlider recognizes, for example, in addition to the number of finger used now also their gestures such as zooming in the navigation map.
Gesture control. 2.0 - digital arm
Presented at the last CES in Golf R Touch Control has significantly evolved Volkswagen. In BUDD-e, the specialists of the "Body Electronics" set now a sensor technology that people already perceive when they approach the Volkswagen. In the exterior area is done through sensors that detect infrared light. When the starting point in the Columbus Avenue in . Therefore, San Francisco reaches an intuitive hand gesture to open the sliding door of BUDD-e as if by magic by foot movement - the "Virtual Pedal 3.0" - the electrically driven tailgate is opened; This is an evolution of the "Easy Open" function Simple and intuitive than ever works out the gesture control in the interior, since the maximum operating distance was there also increased significantly. There are cameras which register when approximately from the rear the .. Sliding to open Interactive display representations and projections support the driver and his guests also in the context of the operation Example driver: His gestures are detected without it - as even the Golf R Touch - must explicitly enable the gesture control; it is thus an integral part of the whole self-evident operating sequences.
Ambient lighting -. Personalised Light
The atmosphere on board is strongly influenced by the mood lighting. As early as 2015, Volkswagen Golf R at CES in touch, as the dominant color of the display illumination and it matched ambient lighting can be adjusted individually via the touch slider. Embedded in this color is also staging the opening / Start ("Start up"), and stop / Close ("Shut down") of the Volkswagen: When you open the interior with its complete cockpit and ambient lighting come to life. The realized in BUDD-e Ambient lighting constitutes a development: while they 2015 mainly influenced the lighting conditions of the driver and passenger, they now extend to the entire interior. In addition, there are now for the first time an interaction of ambient lighting with the gesture control. Last but not least, the light can be adapted to the passing scenery.
BUDD-e - the car in the Internet of Things
Smart Home / Home-Net -. Automotive habitat
The all-new infotainment concept of BUDD-e does not only make traveling more interactive and more tangible media, it linked the car also complete with the world of its users. Even more - BUDD-e itself is a part of the Internet and become thereby a key in the digitized service and infotainment worlds: People will access by cars like this Volkswagen to her home and the world of work and there regulate the air conditioning, control the light or simply checking online, whether the children are already at home. home in the internet. home in the car.
Drop Box - mobile mailbox same time the automobile is interactive to the interface for the outside world and therefore part of the Smart World: It is conceivable that consumables - such as the wiper blades of the car - and purchases of all kinds in future orders not only via the vehicle, but also be delivered to the car. And via an externally accessible Drop Box in the vehicle; Volkswagen reads over the NFC passcode to open the drop box to be allowed such access parcel service via "Digital Key". A mobile mailbox!
Connected Home
Go home to be controlled smart home functions today via smartphone apps of their respective owners. But smartphones are not to be served known while driving for safety reasons. Volkwagen has also solved this challenge: With "App Connect" - the Volkswagen interface for all Apple and Android smartphones - provides the BUDD-e facility specific features of "connected home" while driving to control from the car. As part of the CES Volkswagen shows together with the Korean electronics company LG, as the concept car BUDD-e from the insight into the refrigerator is possible. It is equally feasible to enable via BUDD-e the whole house in an energy-saving sleep mode. In future, the car will also ensure automatically that the light in and around the house is concerned, as soon as the car pulls up (Home Automation-Net).
Home-Net Viewer
Eye contact parallel to "carplay ™" (Apple) and "Android Auto ™" (Google) is "Mirror Link ™" (for Android phones) a central interface for the use of smartphone apps in the car. all three cases are mirrored in the infotainment system compatible with the Volkswagen Apps smartphone. Volkswagen brings this since 2015 offered in various models smartphone integrations under "App Connect". At CES, will be demonstrated together with the German manufacturer Door Bird, as described in conjunction with the newly developed home-Net Viewer future also images of the built in and around the house cameras can be displayed in one of the displays of the car over "Mirror Link ™" is (feasible This scenario also with "carplay ™" and "Android Auto ™"). For example: Ringing a visitor at home, which via Home camera captured image is fed into the screen of the infotainment system's more. Using the app, it is also possible, with the visitors to talk via speakerphone of the vehicle and, if appropriate, to open the door for him.
Home-Net Do not forget - do not forget anything.
It seems a bit like artificial intelligence at: BUDD-e reminds its users in mind if you have forgotten something in the car. Namely, on the SmartWatch and / or the smartphone. With "Home-Net Do not forget" can also be items in the car locate over an inventory of the driver or passengers can view the landfilled in the car Objects And not only that:.. The intelligent "Reminder" also draws attention to things going on should be in certain situations in the car. Announces the weather forecast, for example, encourage, BUDD-e gives the driver pointing out that currently no umbrella is in the car. The relevant articles are above (small stickers) equipped with a transmitter, which makes them locatable. "Home-Net Do not forget" uses an encrypted radio interface. From outside the vehicle by unauthorized persons and can not be localized objects.
Smart Gesture - Auto opens home doorstep.
Volkswagen will incorporate gesture control as one of the first manufacturers in affordable mass production cars. How great it is the range of options, the company shows in Las Vegas with the BUDD-e. With the help of the car, it will also be possible in the future that the gesture control can also be used via the vehicle for specific functions at the house. And that explains Volkswagen also at CES. Used here is the famous "Easy Open" feature, projected in BUDD-e on request by a virtual laser footprint before the tailgate of the car. If the qualifying users to this position, automatically opens the tailgate. Exactly the same also works with doorstep: BUDD-e projects the footprint before the door; provides the inhabitants its fact, it opens - virtually, at full arms after shopping course must be made ??for this procedure before changes to the front door and a software connection..
FEATURE I - Travel with BUDD-e in 2019
Idea / Our Journey. 25th August 2019. San Francisco.
Friends arrange to meet. News fly via smartphone, SmartWatch and tablet through the net. A few days out of town. Tomorrow we will go early. Spend time together. When one of the most legendary of the USA in the Nevada desert. Once a year, the location where it is an oasis of art, of music, of individuality. A Moveable Feast, whose culmination of eight days of the festival is the sixth burning an oversized human sculpture. The starting point for the trip to Nevada agreed quickly: the Columbus Avenue in San Francisco. From here, the friends BUDD-e will go to Nevada. Around 500 miles interactive tours with a Zero Emission Vehicle including chilling stopover at Lake Tahoe.
Preparation / Travel App
The trip is; the driver's friends got a travel info including route proposal on their tablet. It follows an interactive journey planning, as they did not exist until now. In the period before 2019, of course, you could also worry what music the playlist would be cool and fit, which would Points of Interest (POI) to see and visit. But now these things can be in advance via Tablet as "Our Journey" with the new Volkswagen "Travel App" plan and integrate later on also completely new interfaces directly into the navigation guidance of BUDD-e. Even the playlist is tailored to the Route: Each traveler plans before the start, what he liked to listen to where the route from San Francisco to Nevada to see and would like to make.
Example playlist: Get out of town, it is the direction of Lake Tahoe on the Oakland Bay Bridge to go. Simply pull on the tablet, a suitable song like "Hotel California" (which is perfectly tailored to the cruising Live version of "Hell Freezes Over") per slide from the library on the route guidance before the section of the Oakland Bay Bridge. While driving, the Eagles song will be recorded later exactly when leaving the town and crossing the bridge. Travel becomes a pre-programmed musical experience.
Example Points of interest: The direct route to Nevada via US Highway "80" in the direction of Oakland Bay Bridge with a minimal detour on legendary Ferry Building Over - the main building of the San Francisco Ferry Terminal, where every morning and evening commuters from Sausalito and Co. and equipped with bicycles tourists purity in the city and out flow. It would be nice, something to one of the many nice restaurants in the Ferry Building Marketplace, overlooking the Oakland Bay Bridge before long turn up to Lake Tahoe So eat breakfast. Per Slide the Location slide as a POI to the route Move BUDD-e will do there station So all guests can assign aboard their favorite songs and venues, but also videos and photos of route guidance...
For battery charging. Of course, the possibility of interactive route planning has also the driver who at Lake Tahoe, the intermediate target, ever locates the inductive charging station for e-BUDD and assigns as POI navigation. The Lake Tahoe is also marked as a POI. Move can be accessed via the infotainment system also important information such as the current weather and the water temperature.
Example target point. The festival in Nevada is also fed as a POI via tablet. All important information about the event can be accessed across multiple displays now in the car at anytime. And of course, the arrival is perfected to the point with the right music.
Home / Welcome aboard. 26th August. Starting point San Francisco. Riders and friends meet at Baker Beach. Per gesture control to open the sliding side door of BUDD-e. Every traveler has his tablet with the new Volkswagen "Travel App" in the luggage; with this app you had planned the interactive requests for Tour recognizes a sensor in the car and automatically locates the Tablets of travelers It is no matter whether they.. use a device with Android or Apple operating system automatically performs the new Volkswagen "Travel App" now all previously selected details of the trip to the festival in Nevada together. First, the guests are welcomed on board on the basis of a previously personalized avatar. Above each seat, there is also an individualized ambient lighting in the favorite colors chosen also via App. On a 34-inch monitor (left rear) which displays the tablets are bundled and brought together the personalized playlists, photos, movies and POIs on a common journey. The tablets in BUDD-e are loaded inductively incidentally.
Move / experience and share. BUDD-e and friends leave San Francisco behind. Move vary and complement the Points of Interests, upload more songs in the playlist of the itinerary. The new entries are displayed in parallel on the 34-inch display to visualize the detailed itinerary. Move images and movies can also be made ??on board and off the track on GoPro cameras. Which can be via "WhatsApp" & Co sent from the car and collected as a complete travel diary mail. And so take the most legendary of all current US festivals that did not make it to Nevada in 2019.
FEATURE II - automated Tourism 2019
Automated driving / traveling relaxed.
Implemented is also the possibility to let go automates BUDD-e future. The Volkswagen Group is one of the pioneers of "autonomous driving" Back in 2005, Volkswagen won with the upper-class SUV Touareg in the US, the Grand Challenge -.. One over a distance of 136.7 miles / 220 kilometers material discharged race for automated driving automobiles Developed been on was the "Stanley" baptized prototype from the Group's own Electronic Research Laboratory (ERL) in Palo Alto, California and Stanford University. Since then, the development of automated driving advances in rapid evolutionary stages until today. 2015 finally allowed the group brand Audi A7 piloted Driving Concept - fitted with laser scanners, long and mid-range radar sensors and four cameras front and rear - automates the ERL in Silicon Valley to CES in Las Vegas drive. More than 560 miles (about 900 kilometers) with enthusiastic media representatives on board the study. And Volkswagen sends e-Golf Perfect Parking at CES 2015 in Las Vegas automatically via smartphone app for inductive charging station.
Part Automated presence / step by step.
There are already already in the series Volkswagen individual assistance systems that operate automatically. For them, the traffic jam assistant include (automatic steering, braking and acceleration in stop-and-go to 37 mph / 60 km / h), ACC (automatic braking and accelerating at high speeds on the highway), the surroundings monitoring system Front Assist including City Emergency Braking and pedestrian recognition, Lane Assist Plus Side Assist (automatic track keeping plus countersteering when changing lanes with vehicles in the blind spot), Park Assist (automatic parking maneuvers including automatic steering and braking), the Ausparkassistent (detects vehicles approaching the backward leaving a parking space and then decelerates) or Emergency Assist (automatic stopping of the vehicle plus activating hazard warning flashers and SOS emergency if the driver fails).
Partially Automated is fully automated / merge systems.
By the end of this decade - in 2019 about when BUDD-e from San Francisco to Nevada is the festival go - could in research vehicles such as the Audi A7 piloted driving concept and the e-Golf Perfect Parking employed assistance systems and the systems already in Volkswagen as the Passat and Golf offered merge in function and make commonplace the fully automated driving. With two goals: minimization of accidents and maximizing comfort on long journeys. The technical kits of the Volkswagen Group are designed so that the latest features on the way to fully automated driving train can be integrated to train.