Welcome to Tech in the Car in this video i'm going to show you around the new Golf MK8.
let's look at some settings i didn't show you in the last video so the first thing to note
here is to do with the security settings or the privacy settings so if we swipe across to here
you can see it says privacy settings show my position what i can do is i can change that so
i can change it to use my position i can change it to no position data or i can change it to
maximum privacy and what these various settings allow you to do is they allow you to
share your information as far as location goes in different apps and different ways so if you don't
want somebody to know where you are if you don't want the app to know where you are you can do
that now i'm going to set it to share my position because i have no problem with that here so that
is a setting as far as security goes privacy is very important to make sure that only you can use
your car when i was setting this app up for the video it required me to have both the car keys
so somebody can't just get in your car here we are in a shop the shop lets you buy certain features
and activate them so you can see we have we connect plus which is how i'm using
the app to connect to the car which i'll show you in a little bit mood lighting which allows you to
change the mood lighting amazon alexa so you can talk to amazon through your car if i tap on that
that's the alexa app i can scroll through i can click on open
so i'm gonna set up amazon alexa now with the car so i can enter that code into my amazon
app to connect alexa continue yes i would like to allow yes i will allow my location
your registration is now complete and here we go alexa is now set up alexa what's the weather today
in eastbourne it's 20 degrees celsius with partly sunny skies today's forecast calls for more of the
same with a high of 20 degrees and a low of 11 degrees alexa take me to gatwick airport
would you like directions to london gatwick airport on airport way in gatwick yes please
okay getting directions and there we go that's an example
“Alexa”
“What is the address for volkswagen eastbourne”
the address for kaffen's volkswagen is hannan's drive eastbourne bn236pw
it is open until later today at 6 30 p.m
however due to current health and safety measures ours may be different how tall is mount everest
mount everest is 8 848 meters above sea level let's go back to the shop and see what else is
here so we got light assist main control beam and you can turn it on and off and buy features so
this car i expect with this obviously it already has it but if you don't have the feature then you
can buy it this car is probably already stuck with that so we can't get it but that is how
it works very simple very easy to do if you want to connect your phone to the car and use
it as a wi-fi hotspot you can do that as well and you can scroll through and you can choose
how to activate the sim card in the car for that purpose let's have a look at the settings you can
adjust some things you wouldn't be able to adjust otherwise such as the clock proximity sensors
and turn them on and off you can turn the gestures on and off as well in the settings
i can adjust the voice control system here for vw
i can connect to the wi-fi as i mentioned use it as a hotspot
i can scroll down i can see mobile devices on here that were connected with carplay or bluetooth
i can see system information
and also as you'll see here i can update the software if there is an update available
and i can have direct access to the alexa app
alexa what is echo auto and there is an explanation of what this is what
an echo auto is using alexa and let's go back into radio you can see your radio stations here
you can see it as a list as well and you can go into separate media settings and change the source
you can also adjust your sound settings bass mid and treble
you can adjust where the focus is in the car do you want it towards the back
or towards the front and obviously you can adjust the volume manually as well and you can bring up
your notifications and then as i showed you before you can swipe over to the side to get shortcuts
including your privacy settings which are very very important
and then back to the overview dashboard
let's look at the app now so the wii connect app is how you connect your car
this is the car i'm in now you can see that my right hand door is unlocked
as i scroll down i can see the status here bonnet and the boot are closed the windows are closed
the lights are off you can see how many miles i've done you can see when the next service is
you can see oil change information you can see your economy
how far you've driven you can see your driving data when you go for drive it will show you
since you covered how long you're driving for your consumption so you can keep track of your driving
you can adjust your permissions as well you can also add a secondary user if you want to so you
can share that data access with other people as well i can also control the hazard warning lights
and the horn from the app of the car and i can cause the lights to flash and the horn to sound
if i want to locate the car or test them out i can also check out the car settings
i can tap on a little settings there and i can see an overview of the settings
i can see my online services that are activated i can also go in to set my authorized workshop
there we go save campaigns esports my authorized workshop done with contact details as well
i can see a vehicle health report this is very cool allows you to see everything's
okay there's no problems with the various parts of the car and there's no messages related to
those and i can see my various notifications you can create area alerts and speed alerts
so if you go too fast you know about it in your notifications and don't forget as you saw in my
driving video when i was getting to a corner had the driver assistance features on it told
me that the speed limit was low and actually slowed me down on iphone it looked exactly the
same as on android on my galaxy fold with a large screen you could see that everything is the same
notifications vehicle health report you can see the map there so you can set your home address
and location so when you go home it knows where you live you can adjust your settings
i've now closed the doors but you can see here that the windows are open because
my rear windows are open because it's a very warm day so i can see even little bits of
information like the windows very easily in the app let's try out the horn feature
you can see there the lights are which is very flashing let's try out the horn feature now
that works i hope you enjoyed this video about the golf marquee and you've enjoyed seeing how it
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