auto@web
(Auto-)Mobile Internet
Where is the next free parking space? Is there a good Italian restaurant nearby? Is the museum open today – and when does it close? The auto@web Tiguan, which Volkswagen Group Research has equipped specially for this pilot project, provides this information in a flash – assuming the driver is somewhere in Wolfsburg, where the “Wireless Wolfsburg” research cooperative has developed one of the biggest connected city-wide WiFi networks to test the mobile Internet on a regional scale.
The information ranges from the city’s culture program to interesting sightseeing tours, where to find hotels and restaurants, information on the events calendar and the multi-storey car parks with free parking spaces. The information can be accessed in the city center and the surrounding area – via PC, an Internet cell phone or from the red Tiguan with the striking auto@web lettering on its doors. The Tiguan is in constant contact with an Internet portal which provides it with current, pertinent information.
Permanently up-to-date
The display of the Tiguan’s navigation system not only provides up-to-date information on a broad range of destinations in the categories of “city life”, “travel” and “wellness” in the Wolfsburg region, but the system also calculates the shortest route to these destinations without the driver having to enter the address manually. Drivers also have the option to download a map for the walk from the parking space to the final destination to their mobile devices. And because auto@web communicates every change via the Internet, once you are back home sitting at your PC, it only takes a few clicks to check up on your fuel gauge, or on where you left the car, or even whether you did in fact lock it.