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- MAG1CO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15This is how it should be done, Good ol' VW. Im impressed,
- richardiscool, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16I got some "Linux will eat your children and rape your mother" advert from MS
- evilbrainiac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12It's a good concept and a clean interface, though mobile email sound like a Darwin Award starter kit!
VeeDub...representing Deutschland yo! - soundboy64, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11found some more pics at http://www.razzadesignworks.com/vw_gui.htm
notice the backgrounds are all from OS X... interesting... quite.... - jmuchrisf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8The NANO dock was REAL nice. I think this is a great idea and I can't wait for all cars to have a similar system. Even better, a 3rd part stereo desk that has it all built in.
Come on Alpine - mucnix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I can def. see someone hacking your iron and burning your house down...
- Lewisham, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Exactly. When are we supposed to use these features? Watching the dude write an email which says "I'm driving right now" is utterly horrific. Imagine being the passenger to someone doing that!
It would have to have:
a) voice control
b) voice readouts
to come anywhere close to being a valid tool to use while driving, and even then it's shady about how much you're now not concentrating on the road. - dan_s, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8oooh ooohh can I be the first to sue when I wreck my car because of surfing while driving?
Other than that... i like the nice connectivity features... audio line in, usb - ahhell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Yeah...that's gonna be real great when Apple changes the iPod interface. Oh noes!!111 I need to upgrade my VW to use my iPod!!11!1!
- phatcactus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Ah, the future of tragic car wrecks.
- jpf., on 10/12/2007, -0/+6If you don't understand "VDub in das haus" then watch:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=KLkv1HNgoL0
http://youtube.com/watch?v=SMjiH7t59wQ - landincoldfire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's cool, but a heads-up display would help keep ones eyes on the road. That’s a whole lot of information to pull the eyes away from what is really important. How about a speech-to-text for the email function? And controlling the iron form your driveway, don't most irons have a safety built into them to shut them off after a time?
- shockingbird, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6On much simpler terms, how about being able to pop in my compact flash card in my car to play music off of it? That's what I've been looking for.
- cathode, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6YES. That's the idea, forget this ipod crap, let's get a commonplace, DRM-free compact media slot and let the onboard computing handle the playlists...
- cathode, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9The Nano dock is the worst part of this thing. Why have some proprietary device slot?
What if you don't own an iPod, or what if yours does not fit in there? I would never use that dock... Give me a compact media card slot of some sort. - Loannes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I can't wait for the day that we just jack right into everything, and have access to anything that equals 1's and 0's, essentially I can't wait till the day that the sum of everything equals nothing.
- maverick999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here it is on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRJEfAeCpqo
- Dangerman, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I can see it...
"Dog Status -> Getting into the trash -> Deploy electric shock (yes) (no)"
Wow, meshed trashcans, I can't wait. - jerbaker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Now all they have to do is stop building their cars in Mexico and shape up their lazy, fraudster dealers and they might have something. Having owned a 1990, 1995, and 2000 VW Jetta I feel uniquely qualified to comment on their cars and dealers. The German-made vehicles are exceptionally well-built, but the Mexican-built cars fall apart starting on day one. I had my entire instrument cluster replaced TWICE in the first 400 miles on my 2000 Jetta. The dealership tried to tell me I was SOL (no rental) while they had it in the shop 6 days after I bought it. Of course VW of America could've cared less. When the heater failed three years later I took it to a different dealer who took apart the whole dahsboard and told me the heater box was "bad" and that it would be $1500 to repair. I took it to an independent garage who reconnected the cable between the heater control and the heater box door for $100. I reported them to the California Bureau of Automative Repair. Who knows if anything ever happened. Don't even get me started on the climate controls in my 1995 Jetta that MELTED. I still have the melted knobs. Try an Internet search on how VW's between 1998 and 2001 ate oil. These cars would eat through a quart every two tanks of gas, but the dealerships called it "normal." VW cars are nice, their dealers will rob you blind through outright fraud.
- stray, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Now VW wants you to unpimp your auto so they can sell you a pre-pimped one.
I think the only appropriate response is:
OH, SNAP! - soundboy64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have seen on other concepts in the past with things like this that you can't use certain features while driving or the functionailty becomes more limited, i.e. You cannot send in depth emails with things other than saying "Call me" or something like that.
- jamesong, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5This is a great idea. I love the iPod and phone feature. Awesome German engineering
- fffizzz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2
Jetsons anyone? - spade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Digg, by the way VDub in German is really pronounced fow vay. Representing Deutschland yo!
- gr8one, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can think of the endless amounts of fun you could have turning people's "smart" appliances on and off remotely. It's all fun and games until someone iJacks your iron and burns down your house.
- sixister, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3They need to offer this system as a retrofit kit. I don't want to buy a VW to get all this cool stuff. What happened to Japan being the leader of all things digital-where-it-don't-belong?
- Unicyclelarry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Anti environment? Germany has stricter emissions laws than the U.S. Porsche 911 Turbos are even low emissions vehicles.
- iloveVWs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2VW never stops amazing me. Rock on! Now if i can get it in my 74' Karmann Ghia?
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21) You can be assured that all the cool stuff will turn off once the vehicle starts moving.
2) I've already got an iPod dock in the glove box of my VW.. the honest to goodness Apple white iPod dock. Works great, and I can change playlists through the steering wheel or head unit. The iPod even gets a blue and white VW logo on it when it's docked. The cable was factory, the dock I just stuck on the end of the cable. - ronintetsuro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Exactly. I live in a major metropolitan area, and I see plenty of people all over the road just talking on their cellphones. And now you want to give them a whole OS to ***** around with while the cruise is locked at 90? There's a reason why I get slowed up by at least one accident a day here. It's a great idea in theory, but people are idiots once they get behind the wheel, myself included.
If I had my way, we would be able to shoot out the tires of drivers who are blatantly and brazenly not being attentive to the road. They're the biggest problem on the roads, way worse than drunk drivers, police chases, and unregistered drivers combined. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why do they have to take something cool and practical like the iPod control, and then prevent it from ever being implemented by creating something unpractical and expensive like controlling your iron from your car?
- Windsinger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3VW has spent millions rebuilding their image as "flat-out cool" rather than... well, whatever it was after people stopped making their '69 bugs and buses run forever with golf-tees and duct-tape.
Explains why VW has been on a steady quality/reliability decline for the past 8 years. I had a 98 beetle, but I didn't buy a VW last year when needing something larger; the revies on VW's build quality is *****. - cphuntington97, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Besides the nano dock there were also line-in, usb, and firewire ports.
- EricAnderton, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"swish"?
I think the catchphrase police are going to catch up with you on that one. :( - appleswitch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's seems to be alot of complaints about the nano dock, IT WILL WORK WITH ALL IPODS. Can I seriously be the only one that noticed the iHome-style plastic plating around the iPod slot? it will obviously replaceable
- hypermint, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1great. cell phone =bad driver...comps in car.....???
- trevorsm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Wow, instead of typing replies to emails, you scroll through a big list of predefined replies. Um, gee, that's sooo much safer. Hell, why even bother replying to an email if all you're going to say is "I'm driving"? Are people really that dependent on being wired into their technology constantly?
If I ever get an email reply from someone that says something like "Oh, gee, I'm driving. I'll reply later." I will shoot them in the face.
Even worse, I noticed a little space invaders icon in entertainment, so I assume there are going to be games too. That would be cool if you were stuck in heavy traffic (as in not moving at all), but I think you can be pretty sure that there are going to be people trying to play games while they're driving.
This looks real cool and is a neat application of technology, but it just seems really irresponsible on the part of VW--a lot of people are going to be stupid enough to try and play with this while driving. Sure it'd be great if said people could be sorted out, Darwin Award style, but this could lead to pedestrians or other drivers getting hurt, which isn't so cool. - soundboy64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't mean to burst your bubble, but it's more concept than in production, these are ideas they will implement in the future, not a shipping design. So in regards to the iPod dock, I'm sure they'd make it larger to fit at least 3rd gen iPod's and later via the dock connector, besides if you have the money to buy a VW with this integration, you probably have a newer iPod, if not, then you'd likely drive your new car to the store and buy one...
- aliguana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1people round these parts still drive small lanes/around roundabouts/from traffic lights while having their mobile phone pressed in their neck. you just KNOW they're going to be overtaking while typing an email and eating pizza... these systems (and mobile phones) should be immobilised whilst the car is moving. some kind of bluetooth blocking signal or something.
- uncleFester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i'm glad someone posted links to these ads; I've seen one not listed here and i laughed myself silly. i think this is one GREAT ad campaign!
VeeDub een dha HAAAAAAUSSSS....
-r - The_Dude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Rice is for peasants (TM)(R) [2001 GTI VR6 owner]
- etx313, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I read something about GM doing the same thing. Looks cool, too bad it wont be out for a long time and won't be affordable for a very long time.
- brandizzle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm a girl and I think this is the first car I've ever gotten excited about.
- Pie_Man, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree. My first car was Rabbit GTI 20 years ago and it was a blast to drive.
However it was the most unreliable piece of crap I have ever sat in. In 20 years of refinement they have not advanced one bit. According to many sources (Consumer Reports, MSN, and Consumer Digest) the last generation V-6 VW Jetta is the most unreliable vehicle manufactured at the time. - neopran, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i hate the name
love the product - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Please let us know where you live and when you're on the road, so we can stay the hell away from you.
- OfARevolution23, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Oh, I want that so badly. Great gas mileage and soon a built-in, kick-ass computer interface, VW is scoring high in my book. I only wonder if this will have movie playing capabilities and if so, will they be allowed to function while driving? Because it's in the dash and visible to the driver, most states require that the car be in park for a movie to play. I'm sure one can simply cut the parking wire like on any in-dash pop-up TV tuner but will VW make it more difficult to do?
- Arkitan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1That is very cool, though I can see issues of compatability with my iron ^.^
- jk_baller23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Pretty cool. Always wanted something like that. Font looks a bit small, so it may be hard to read, but I know it isn't finalized yet. Also, not everyone has a iPod nano...does one come with the car :)
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1'83 Rabbit GTi still the best car I've ever owned.
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