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  • - Hey guys, this is is Austin.

  • 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 Audis.

  • So when they reached out and wanted 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 Audi Q7.

  • And as a big luxurious SUV

  • it is absolutely loaded with cool tech.

  • Something that the Q7, and a lot of modern Audis 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 per hour,

  • so you don't 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,

  • it does a really good job of actually keeping you

  • in the right spot.

  • And now that we sped up above 40 miles per hour,

  • the Traffic Jam Assist turns off,

  • but we still do have the lane keep.

  • So we're following the truck in front,

  • and it's doing pretty much all the steering.

  • I have to do a little bit,

  • especially when we get into sharper corners,

  • as you can see here, it's following the bend, no problem.

  • So of course, no driving video is complete

  • without a little bit, you know, actually driving.

  • So no one would suspect that the Audi Q7

  • is going to be a great canyon machine.

  • But it handles surprisingly well.

  • 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 lower 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 not only makes the car feel a lot more planted,

  • but I think it just looks really cool

  • on the outside, as well.

  • Also, I've gotta say, Angeles Forest is such

  • a beautiful, beautiful driving road.

  • (laughter)

  • Oh man.

  • So of course, no one in their right mind

  • is ever going to take a Q7 on a spirited canyon drive,

  • or maybe you will, you 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 legitimately impressed

  • when you look at the size of this thing

  • with how well it actually handles

  • and what kind of power it's got.

  • Ken, are 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 run at a 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 cars 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 it is so, so cool

  • to be able to just look down and get all of the stuff

  • I want to see at a single glance.

  • Another 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

  • in the car though is the MMI interface.

  • So that's going to be controlled with the dial here,

  • as well as your little touchpad.

  • Now you can actually use this for a lot of different things.

  • So for example, if you're using Google Maps

  • to navigate somewhere, you can actually just use

  • the handwriting recognition to write up

  • where you're gonna go, it'll be able to pull it from there.

  • When you start the Q7 the screen is going to rise

  • from the dash and this is where you control

  • pretty much all the main things,

  • including your navigation, your vehicle controls,

  • as well as things like CarPlay.

  • I actually really like CarPlay.

  • So for me, it's something I use everyday,

  • when I'm listening to podcasts, music, that kind of stuff.

  • And the navigation is also pretty decent,

  • especially now that Apple Maps has started

  • to catch up to Google 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 too.

  • 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.

  • But of course, the tech doesn't stop there.

  • So it even comes across as 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 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 just crank up that massage and relax.

  • So of course huge shoutout to Audi

  • 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 in the next one.

- Hey guys, this is is Austin.

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