Using Volkswagen Digital Services in Berlin
49we park and Volkswagen digital services http://www.mobilegeeks.com Hi my name is nicole scott from Mobile Geeks, this weekend I’m armed with a Volkswagen Arteon in Berlin. I’m going to be taking a look at We Park, Volkswagen Connect and Car-Net - a few digital services offered by Volkswagen We.
Berlin is a city full of tiny streets and long boulevards, so while jetting around town I found a few of Volkswagen’s digital services to be pretty useful while on the go. Looking for places to eat is important for me, using the navigation system I was able to look for a delicious bowl of noodle soup to warm me up while I tour around Berlin.
When I arrive at my destination, We Park is an app that allows you to pay for parking almost everywhere in the city. You just select where you’re parked and swipe to start paying for parking and when you leave don’t forget to tell it you’re done! You pay only for the time you use! It’s great!
Note MSL: Not only in Berlin: We Park is now available in over 100 cities in Germany
We tried the Volkswagen Connect DataPlug in an Arteon, but ... it is especially the connectivity solution to retrofit most of the Volkswagen models from 2008 onwards. One the features I used frequently was finding the last location I parked my car, and using the walking directions to get back to it.
You also get driving data on your drive style, your where you went and you can even take driving challenges around types of trips, and in Berlin I took the checkpoint charlie challenge!
Car-Net is the app that goes between your infotainment system and your car. You can search points of interest while sightseeing, read the news, get the weather and since parking is something always on my mind I liked the Park feature when I got close to my destination. I really appreciated the real-time traffic predictions was especially great and saved me from sitting in traffic. Another time saving feature was saving addresses I was interested in visiting on the app and finding them on my infotainment system through Car-Net.
A feature that I found funny, was apparently in Germany it isn’t normal to trust your kid with your car, so you can set speed and distance alerts here to monitor how fast and where your kids are driving. Or you can set the speed to 0 and use it as theft detection.
It’s in Volkswagen’s roadmap to roll all these apps into one! So far we’re a We Park convert! No more figuring out how to pay for parking! This was a look at some of the digital services offered by Volkswagen We! Have any questions? Be sure to leave me a comment! I’m your host Nicole Scott for Mobile Geeks.