The Tech of an $80,000 Audi Q7 #Helpful Post

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