2 ways Volkswagen is using technology to make your drive safer

If you keep up with what’s new in the world of electronics and technology, you know that every year kicks off with the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. In the first week of January, the CES introduces America to the new phones, tablets, gadgets, and advancements that we can expect to see hit the market that year. The automotive industry, Volkswagen in particular, takes on a big role at this show. At the 2015 CES, Volkswagen introduced technologies and integration of technologies that will make the Volkswagen experience more user friendly and safer.

Shortly after their appearance at the CES, Volkswagen sent out a news release with a preview of what is to come with their vehicles. While some of the announcements involved starting your car from an app or fully integrating your tablet to touch screen technology in your Volkswagen infotainment system, they also announced 2 ways Volkswagen is using technology to make your drive safer.

The first of those two ways is intuitive operation. In their press release Volkswagen said, “In the future, the car will not only merge with the mobile world, it will also be more intuitive for people to operate. Today, and in the future, the car will adapt by recognizing their occupants’ movements—via controls based on proximity sensors and gesture recognition. Today, the latest infotainment systems by Volkswagen already detect the approach of a hand with proximity sensors. In the next revolutionary step—which Volkswagen is showing with the Golf R Touch concept vehicle at CES—the infotainment unit will use cameras to not only detect hand gestures, but understand but assign meaning to them. Gesture control will make it possible to control displays and functionality without having to use a touchscreen.” Volkswagen noted that this feature adds convenience, but its main purpose is safety. The more adaptive gesture control can be, the less the driver has to take their eyes off the road, thus reducing driver distraction.

The other way Volkswagen is using technology to make your drive safer is through autonomous and semi-autonomous driving. From the same release, “Clearly, cars of the future will need to be able to drive autonomously if necessary, a change that will be introduced step by step. Even today, Park Assist by Volkswagen enables semi-automated entry and exit from parking spaces. The car executes the entire steering process for the parking maneuver independently. At CES, Volkswagen is now showing another evolutionary stage of Park Assist: Trained Parking. Here, the car scans a frequently driven path to a parking space via camera, and from that point on it executes the path semi-automatically by computer control. In another evolutionary stage, it will be possible to have the car parked by the driver remotely, using a smartphone to control the car.”

Volkswagen featured the Golf for the introduction of the new features. Check-out a video of the highlights:

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