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Parking the Volkswagen Touareg with your phone

25 Nov 2020|1,906 views

Using Volkswagen's Park Assist with remote control allows the Touareg to be manoeuvred into any parking space, all with an app on your smartphone.

The Volkswagen Touareg now drives into and out of parking spaces, just by controlling it with a smartphone, made possible with the new Park Assist with remote control assist system. Here's a typical situation, a multi-storey car park at the airport, for example.

You're rushing for your flight, and all the airport has are narrow parking spaces, just the thing anyone would love to face when they're in a rush. That means stopping the car out of the lot, unloading the luggage, then getting back into the car to park it, then squeezing yourself out of the car.

Touareg owners are able to remotely start the engine on their cars with the Park Assist app

Park Assist permits semi-automatic parking in parking spaces, and the car can also drive itself semi-automatically out of parallel parking spaces again. The Touareg will take over the steering, while the driver presses the accelerator and brake pedals.

Now, Volkswagen is now going a decisive step further, because the new Park Assist with remote control now works fully automatically for the first time - in other words, it also controls the engine and the brake.

The new system offers two operating modes. In the first mode, the driver remains seated in the vehicle and operates the Park Assist. In the second mode, the driver gets out of the Touareg and controls the parking manoeuvre using their smartphone. In both cases, the SUV independently drives into or out of the parking space in forward or reverse direction. What is more, it does this in all types of parking spaces.

This is how Park Assist with remote control works. The driver activates the search for a parking space by tapping on the 'P' field on the infotainment system screen. The driver selects one of the offered parking spaces.

The Park Assist app gives Touareg owners choices on which way they want their car to either drive out or reverse into a lot

When the display states 'depress the brake and press and hold the button or select Park Assist with remote control' appears, they then choose the second option which is Park Assist with remote control. The driver taps on the option, takes the vehicle key, gets out of the vehicle and then activates the parking manoeuvre via the app.

To do this, the driver presses the 'drive' button on the smartphone and parking now starts. The 'drive' button must be pressed continuously for safety reasons. The SUV now carries out the process of driving into a parking space fully automatically.

If the driver would like to drive the parked Touareg out of a tight parking space, they no longer have to squeeze into the car to do this. To activate automatic driving out of the parking space, the driver simply starts the engine via the VW Remote Park Assist Plus app by pressing the start/engine/stop button.

When the engine is started, available manoeuvres for driving out of the parking space are displayed on the mobile phone, such as 'forward left' or 'forward right'. The driver now simply selects the direction and activates the manoeuvre for driving out of the parking space by pressing the 'drive' button icon.

In this case also, the driver must continuously press the digital button for safety reasons. The manoeuvre for driving out of a parking space is visually displayed in parallel on the smartphone.

Touareg owners are able to remotely start the engine on their cars with the Park Assist app

The Park Assist app gives Touareg owners choices on which way they want their car to either drive out or reverse into a lot