Volkswagen Passat CC test drive since 2009 sedan

There, around the bend

What is separating from tomorrow today? The movement of the second arrow and you are already in the next day. One -sided and uncontrollable (so far!) Time can be replaced with more supple measurements, there would be appropriate mechanisms. Anton Chuykin turned into a close future.
Of course, it was this system that I wanted to test the first of the new products painfully tempting Lane Assist in a press release. And therefore, having jumped out of the lace of the denouement into the autobahn, I took a free row, waited for the first turn and removed my hands from the steering wheel.
Turns! It turns itself! As soon as the strip of the road began to run aside, the SS Passat slightly pumped the steering wheel and took a place within the marking boundaries.
Recently, this could only be seen on closed tracks of landfills, or in films about the near future. Are cars moving automatically, science fiction became a reality? No, has not yet become: a female voice from the bowels of the dashboard interrupted the experiment, strictly asking to take up the steering wheel. The strip retention device can only insure and warn the driver, but not replace it. Like smart cruise control, who can not only go out, but also slow down until a complete stop, maintaining a safe distance. But many times I tried to go straight in smooth turns, so that, having felt a soft movement of the steering wheel, to be in the bottom for a few seconds.
And here, by the way, is not bad at all! Frequent residents who usually play the coming cars are not in sight. On the contrary, I do not get tired of admiring my car, clicking with a camera gives aesthetic pleasure. SS Passat is beautiful, that’s it. Nothing extraordinary, the recognition of the brand and model is one hundred percent, but somewhat bold deep strokes made the main thing after this Volkswagen look around.
It is a pity that there, in tomorrow, I could not pierce the wheel. SS Passat is seriously equipped with Contiseal technology. A special layer on the inside of the treadmill is almost instantly sealing holes from nails, screws and other objects with a diameter of up to 5 mm. They account for up to 85% of tire damage. The driver may not find out about the puncture. And in that case, maybe I still caught a nail?
The stereotypes of tomorrow's being often include smoke, poisonous steam, low clouds and other consequences of the environmental disaster. Such a time machine, like the new Passat, on the contrary, is taking me right into the alpine pastoral. The breathing of the motor does not defile fresh mountain air in any case, the Euro IV smells for me. And the diesel is completely laid in the euro V, operating since 2009.
Humanity is destined to live in huge megacities, or will small cozy towns be preserved? Be sure, they will not go anywhere. And so, having entered such a settlement, what will we do with all this automation of maintaining the distance and stripes, if there is not always enough space on the narrow streets and for marking? Of course, you have to take control so that you should not wean from the steering wheel! But the difficulties of parking can be forgotten: the Park Assist device will free from the need to calculate the gaps, rotating the steering wheel only to press the pedals and switch the gears back and fed.
It seemed to you that tomorrow would not be a drive? Please: a 300-horsepower all-wheel drive car will provide such an opportunity. A 3.6-liter six is \u200b\u200benough with an excess and to feel how great an adaptive suspension works, and in order to feed the dust of possible rivals, and in order to provide energy with all conceivable options. However, this car seemed heavy to me, inert, so for real joy from driving I would advise a front-wheel drive 160-horsepower SS Passat.
It is worth the time of time to stop, it is overtaken by the present with its problems, a daily turnover and everyday life. And here it turns out that in everyday life future technologies are not always practical. To take the same Lane Assist, even on German roads, he did not always see the strip, what can we say about ours and yet without such sprouts of the future it is impossible to develop. Tomorrow begins today: the SS Passat will be presented at the Moscow Motor Show at the end of August, and in the dealers salons he will be waiting in October.
Volkswagen Passat CC The most elegant and intellectual dimension of a familiar model.
Become in a row! (Lane Assist device)
The camera in the block of the salon mirror and the rain sensor controls the marking lines. When she does not see the markup (for example, heavy rain, etc.), the symbol of the device on the dashboard shines yellow. With readiness for work, the color changes to green.
When the driver forgot to turn on the turn signal, but intends to leave his row, he will easily overcome the slight resistance and trembling of the steering wheel.
If the turning signal is not turned on, but the car shifts from its strip, the assistant will give the command to steel control, the electric power steering will work, turning the wheels, and the car will take the middle of the row again.
The device is not an autopilot: if you have released the steering wheel for a long time, it will remind you of the need to return to control.
Anton Chuykin
 
 
 

 
 

Source: The magazine "Driving"