Dual-map displays and gesture control. We review the 2020 Volkswagen Discover Pro (9.2") infotainment system. It comes with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, plus gesture controls and the ability to display maps on both the infotainment screen and the Digital Cockpit. Does it work well? Watch and find out!
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00:00 G'day, I'm Paul. Today I'm going to walk you through a detailed review of the Volkswagen
00:03 Discover Pro infotainment system, plus the digital cockpit. If you want to check out
00:07 some of our other infotainment reviews, you can see that playlist by clicking up there.
00:11 Otherwise, let's get stuck into it.
00:13 This is what the home screen looks like. You've got navigation and then a submenu for telephone
00:18 and media. So let's kick things off here with navigation. The screen itself is fast and
00:24 easy to use. It comes with auto zoom functions as well, which means when you set auto zoom
00:29 and you're on a freeway, for example, it will zoom out so you can see more of the road.
00:33 As you approach an intersection, it will zoom in so you can see the roads around you. What
00:36 you'll notice as well is when my finger approaches the screen, it detects that and then it presents
00:41 me with submenus. So I can get a bit more quality out of the screen and not have the
00:45 menus there all the time until I need them.
00:47 How quick is navigation input? Let's give this a shot. I'll try type in Melbourne Airport.
00:53 So I can already see there it's quite fast in terms of processing that. And then we go.
00:59 It's got the suburbs and then if I scroll down, points of interest as well. You can
01:02 also use voice recognition. The button on the steering wheel allows you to make phone
01:05 calls into navigation address destinations. And then if you do have your phone connected,
01:10 it will then allow you to send commands through the phone as well.
01:13 In terms of smartphone mirroring, you have Apple CarPlay and Android Auto. Both of those
01:17 operate wired, so it's not a wireless system. I'll show you what that looks like. The integration
01:22 here of Apple CarPlay is quite nice. It's full screen instead of just being a segmented
01:26 menu, which some other manufacturers do. So you're getting a little bit more screen real
01:29 estate there and it looks high resolution.
01:32 Let's look at the telephone menu. In the telephone menu, once you are connected over Bluetooth,
01:36 it's going to present you here with the ability to dial. But when you are connected with smartphone
01:40 mirroring, it refers you to your CarPlay menu or Android Auto, depending on which one you
01:44 have connected. And you'll see those controls here.
01:46 In terms of radio, it is a little bit disappointing because there's only FM and AM. You don't
01:49 get digital radio, but you do get these displays here that show you which station you're listening
01:54 to. So that is handy. You don't have to take your eyes off the road for too long to pick
01:57 another radio station.
01:58 And then if you're sick of the radio, you have the ability to connect to other media,
02:02 and there are a lot of sources to choose from. Jukebox is the internal storage within the
02:06 car. You can put in a CD if you're old school. SD card slots as well. USB, Bluetooth audio,
02:12 auxiliary, and also wireless LAN, so you can connect to other devices wirelessly.
02:17 I love the vehicle menu. So you have a number of different options to choose from, and while
02:21 this isn't a four-wheel drive, there is an off-road menu that I think really lends to
02:25 this car's adventurous sort of image.
02:27 So this is your active vehicle display. You can select what you want shown here, and when
02:30 the car's moving, they will appear there. But if we jump over to off-road, have a look
02:34 at this. It shows you your altitude, your compass direction, and also what your tyres
02:38 are doing, which direction they're pointing, how much inclination you have in the car.
02:42 And then the other cool stuff you can do here is convenience consumers. It shows you how
02:46 much extra energy you're consuming by cranking the air conditioning. This has three zones
02:50 of climate control, so if the kids are putting the air conditioner up or down in the back,
02:54 it will tell you how much extra fuel you're using.
02:56 But if you really want to go that one step further, there's the ThinkBlue trainer. If
03:00 you click on ThinkBlue, it actually gives you tips on how to save energy. So take this
03:04 one for example, a warm engine, a cool way to save. It gives you a description of how
03:08 you can reduce your fuel consumption by letting the engine warm up. All kind of basic information,
03:13 but if you're not fully across how to save fuel, you can read through these, and then
03:17 it will give you a score on exactly how you're doing.
03:19 And then the final one there is vehicle status. This is where a lot of your warnings will
03:22 come up, and where you can also select different profiles for the car. Now see this little
03:26 hand here? That is for the gesture control. Watch this. You can sit here all day moving
03:32 the screen around. It is kind of a pointless feature, but it does it anyway.
03:36 In terms of traffic, it will tell you any traffic warnings around the area. That integrates
03:40 also with the satellite navigation system, so it can show you which spots have traffic.
03:44 And if there is heavy traffic, it will route you around that traffic.
03:47 The other two things I'm going to show you here, the images menu. You can load images
03:51 into the car or also on an SD card. I don't really know why you'd want images here, but
03:55 you have the ability to do that.
03:57 And then there's the air conditioning menu as well. This shows you what's happening around
04:00 the cabin in terms of temperatures. I like that because it's a three-zone layout. You
04:03 can see what's happening around the car, but you can also lock the rear so the kids can't
04:07 fiddle with those things if you don't want them to.
04:09 But I do like this feature, air care. So when you activate this, what it does is it uses
04:14 the pollen filter in the car to remove dust and particles and give you kind of like a
04:19 fresher environment within the car. It is no bio-defense mode in a Tesla, but it is
04:25 still an ability to get some fresh air into the car if you need to.
04:28 Finally, let's talk digital cockpit. It's a 10.25-inch screen that sits in front of
04:32 the driver. This has a number of different configuration options. So I'll show you the
04:35 main core functions and I'll step you through each of the menus.
04:38 All of your controls for the screen are on the right-hand side of the steering wheel.
04:41 So this is what it looks like if you just have it in its default setup. You have revolutions
04:45 on the left with the gear the car's in, and then the speed on the right with a digital
04:49 speed readout. One push of the view button allows you to go full map screen, and then
04:53 it pushes the speed and the gear on the right and the left, respectively.
04:56 We can then switch through the different context menus. So this is another display you can
05:00 have with the map in the center. If we go back to our default, I'll run you through
05:03 the different menus you can have on show. So audio shows you whichever audio menu you
05:07 have, whether you're on Bluetooth, radio or CD player. And then if you skip through, you
05:12 have telephones. This is where you can make phone calls through the car's display without
05:15 having to take your eyes off the road. Vehicle status, this is where all of the car's warnings
05:19 appear. So you can see here that we have a passenger door open at the moment. Driving
05:23 data is all of our fuel consumption data and trip computer information. You can then jump
05:27 through and even get a second speed display on here. You can never be too safe in Australia
05:31 with all the speed cameras. And then you have other information such as oil temperature,
05:35 trip computer, current consumption, and then an overview, which is just everything we've
05:39 just seen. Over on the assist systems, this shows you how far you are from the car in
05:43 front and it allows you to adjust the distance control for your radar cruise control. It
05:47 shows you visually what that looks like. And then using the button on the steering wheel
05:51 here, you can range between the different levels of sensitivity. Finally, you can also
05:55 enable and disable the rest of the safety controls. So lane assist can go on and off
05:59 just with a press of that button. And then you can change whether the cruise control
06:03 is radar cruise or just a speed limiter. And then finally, you can turn rear traffic alert
06:07 and the rest of your safety systems on and off using all the toggles on the right.
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