Assist systems
IQ.DRIVE Travel Assist
The optional Travel Assist is an extremely useful driving assistant to have on board.
It can keep you in your lane, maintain a minimum distance to the vehicle in front and prevent you from exceeding your pre-set top speed.
One of the features it uses to do this is adaptive lane guidance, which actively keeps the vehicle centred in the lane. Travel Assist adapts to your way of driving and can also drive further to the left or right instead of the exact centre of your lane.
Working together with a navigation system, Travel Assist is being extended by predictive cruise control and an assistant that allows the vehicle to react to bends. This means that Travel Assist can adapt the vehicle’s speed to the relevant speed restrictions and the course of the road (bends, roundabouts etc.).
In conjunction with the dual clutch gearbox (DSG), you can remain relaxed too while driving in traffic jams and in stop-and-go traffic.
Adaptive Cruise Control ACC
Adaptive Cruise Control helps you to maintain the vehicle at a maximum speed1 pre-set by you as well as a minimum distance from the car in front of you.2 Working together with a navigation system, ACC is being extended by predictive cruise control and an assistant that allows the vehicle to react to bends.
This means that ACC can adapt the vehicle’s speed to the relevant speed restrictions and the course of the road (bends, roundabouts etc.).
In conjunction with the dual clutch gearbox (DSG), you can remain relaxed too while driving in traffic jams and in stop-and-go traffic.
Front Assist emergency braking system
The standard Front Assist emergency braking system with pedestrian detection can alert you to critical situations involving pedestrians and other vehicles and even apply the brake automatically in emergencies.
Lane Assist
Monotonous journeys can also turn into dangerous situations. This is where Lane Assist comes into play: above a speed of 60 km/h it can detect whether the vehicle unintentionally leaves its own lane. Using corrective power steering, it can direct the driver’s attention back to what’s happening on the road.
Park Assist parking steering assistance incl. Park Distance Control
Not only can your Volkswagen with optional Park Assist tell you as you pass by whether a parking space is big enough – it can also drive into the parking space for you.
Up to a speed of 40 km/h, Park Assist permanently searches for suitable parallel parking spaces. Up to a speed of 20 km/h it also searches for parking bays. Once you have decided on one of the parking spaces found, you start the parking process, with Park Assist taking over the steering. You just need to operate the accelerator and brake and monitor the process.
Park Assist can also drive the vehicle out of parallel parking spaces again.
Side Assist lane change system
The optional Side Assist lane change system can warn you about dangerous lane changes. An LED display in the exterior mirror alerts you to another vehicle in your blind spot or approaching quickly from behind.
If you indicate to change lane, it calculates whether one of these situations could pose a hazard to you owing to position and speed – and alerts you by conspicuous flashing.
Working together with the Lane Assist lane keeping system, it can support you additionally with corrective steering intervention.
The Rear Traffic Alert warns you about vehicles crossing in your path when in reverse. If you do not respond, the system can intervene and brake the vehicle to alleviate or even prevent a collision.
