Volkswagen is making improvements to the Golf’s infotainment system. The system becomes faster and in theory even puts an end to unintentional touching of the ‘sliders’ under the screen.
The infotainment system introduced in the Golf and ID3 certainly does not only yield positive reactions. It is cumbersome, suffers from a lot of crashes and is often simply slow, as we regularly experienced. Volkswagen has apparently listened to the criticism, because it presents an improved version today. First of all, this consists of a hardware upgrade, by installing a faster chip. Together with finer-grained software, this should result in a much faster response from the system, with faster and better results and shorter calculation times.
sliders
Interestingly enough, Volkswagen seems to have found a solution to a unique problem: unintentionally touching the volume and temperature sliders below the screen. With the new variant, these controls simply switch off when the system registers that someone is busy on the screen. They will of course still work if the sliders are specifically targeted. The digital ‘buttons’ around the hazard light button, ie slightly lower, are also disabled if fingers are registered near the screen. The purpose of this eludes us for the time being, but apparently you could also operate it unintentionally.
Voice Control
Another important area of improvement is the Voice Control. According to Volkswagen, this now knows much better what the speaker means, resulting in less irritation.
Insofar as the upgrade is software-related, it also applies to existing Golfs. This also seems to apply to the function that disables the sliders on the screen. It will take a while: Volkswagen will approach existing customers from the beginning of next year. Undoubtedly (part of) the update also applies to other models, such as the Golf-related Seat Leon and the Volkswagen ID3. However, nothing has been officially announced yet.
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