I recently saw a reportage about emergency call-takers. As you watch them work you'll notice they get an automatic call from the crashed car long before any human calls them, presumably from that modem.
replyI'm not arguing that the modem should be mandatory, or that you shouldn't be able to control what it does. But forcing car vendors who want to built in a modem to make this modem do an automatic emergency call by default, that seems quite sensible. Even more sensible would be if the modem did nothing unless you allow it, except when it detects that crash, but... profits.
That is one of the best, most profound and prescient videos I have ever seen.
replyWhoever came up with the idea that the car should beep loudly even close to the speed limit has clearly never driven a car.
The best way to silence it is to constantly be over the speed limit or well below.
replyProbably made worse by the fact that _every_ VW brand car I’ve driven has read about 10% high on the speedometer. I think I’m going 100 kph, but timing using the km markers on the highway show I’m going about 90.
replyWhen I talked to the dealers, they said that the speedometers only have to be accurate +/- 10% according to the SAE specifications.
After DieselGate I assumed that the high reading was to game the fuel consumption game.
Never again, VW auto group…
I have a GTI and with cruise control on, the speedo and my phone's gps reads exactly the same speed.
replyJust use the speed reported by your GPS. Most navigation apps show the GPS-based speed.
replyThis thing makes me crazy. But I can somehow ignore my Skoda’s whining. The other car was bought months before this regulation happened and I will keep it as long as I can.
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