Gadgetory

hey guys doston I've been a big fan of Audi for years in fact my last two cars including the rs3 that I drive today are all outies so when they reached out and want to give me a q7 for a week and sponsor a video it didn't take me long to say yes this is the 2018 ow t q7 and as a big luxurious SUV is absolutely loaded with cool tech something that the q7 and a lot of other modern outies have is traffic jam assist especially when you get into bumper-to-bumper traffic something like this is so much nicer now mind you this is only going to be enabled when you're going below 40 miles an hour so you have to worry about following exactly behind the car trying to stay in your lane watching around the car does a lot of that work for you it's not going to be full self-driving but as long as you kind of keep an eye on things if there's a really good job of actually keeping you in the right spot and now that we've sped up about 40 miles an hour the traffic jam it says turns off but we still do have the lane key so we're following the truck in front and it's doing pretty much all the steering I have to do a little bit less especially when we get into sharper corners because you can see here is following the bend no problem so of course no driving video is complete without a little bit of you know actual driving so no one would suspect that the Audi q7 is going to be a great Canyon machine but it handles surprisingly well a big part of that are the giant 285 summer tires on this guy but for an SUV that's this big it handles surprisingly well something you can really notice with this though is that when you actually load the air suspension it makes a big difference so you can crank it all the way up if you're doing something like off-roading but for like a Canyon Drive like this lowering it not only makes the car feel a lot more planted I think it just looks really cool on the outside as well also I've got to say Angeles Forest is such a beautiful beautiful driving road oh man so of course no one to the right mind is ever going to take a q7 on a spirited Canyon driver maybe well who knows but the idea here is that you're getting a full-size SUV that not only has all the tech that you would expect but it also drives like a proper proper driving SUV I mean I'm literally impressed when you look at the size of this thing look how well it actually handles and what kind of power it's got I mean can you scared yet there are a lot of cool convenience and safety features when it comes to driving the q7 but there's even more cool tech on the inside and that starts with virtual cockpit as opposed to a standard gauge cluster what we're getting here is a full LCD display now not only is the entire thing going to be completely configurable and running at full 60 frames per second but interestingly it's being powered by an NVIDIA Tegra k1 processor you know the same chip that's in a certain very popular handheld game console now a few other Carter's are starting to add LCDs to their gauges but as far as I've tried nothing really touches what Audi's been able to do with the virtual cockpit and especially in my car where I can actually pull up some of the performance stuff is so so cool to be able just look down and get all of the stuff I want to see at a single glance and then the cool option is the heads-up display so this is going to give you some basic information like your miles per hour without having to take your eyes off the road as well as your speed limit but you're also going to be getting other stuff like information on the assisted driving tools and if you have navigation running you're gonna get that all without ever having to take your eyes off the road the main thing you're going to be using inside the car though is the MMI interface so that's going to be controlled with the dial here as well as your little touch pad and you can use this for a lot of different things so for example if you're using Google Maps to navigate somewhere you actually just use the handwriting recognition to write out we're gonna go you'll be able to pull it up from there when you start the q7 the screen is going to rise from the dash and this is where your control pretty much all the main things including your navigation your vehicle controls as well as things like car play I actually really like car play so for me it's something I use every day when I'm listening to podcasts music that kind of stuff and the navigation is also pretty decent especially now that Apple Maps is started to catch up to the cool maps something that's really cool is the top view camera so the q7 has cameras all the way around the car so on top of being able to see say when you're pulling into a tight spot it will switch to like the right front camera or the main front camera or the left front camera or whatever you're closest to but you can also do a top-down view so say you want to see if you're exactly right up into the spot you can see that of course the tech doesn't stop there so even comes across to some of the smaller things like the climate controls so you actually have a display in each knob so when you adjust the actual temperature you're going to get a full display which is totally unnecessary and totally awesome so one of my favorite parts of the q7 are the seats so not only are they going to be in this nice soft leather but they're going to be heated they're going to be ventilated and they are going to be massaging yes I like the massaging seats a lot don't judge me it's so cool to be able to have the car sort of driving itself for the most part on the freeway listening to some nice music on the bose stereo and then you crank up that massage and relax so of course huge shout out to outtie for sponsoring this video I'm curious what do you guys think about all the tech inside the q7 let me know in the comments below and I will catch you on the next one