Golf 8: VW suspends deliveries due to software problems
If the new car can't call the ambulance for you, it's not allowed to be on European roads anymore.
Shaken by the difficult economic situation of recent months, Volkswagen is now facing the next major challenge. The current edition of the Golf, the most important and most successful model of the German company, is causing new trouble.
More specifically, it's about the so-called "eCall"-system. Since 2018, it has been mandatory for new EU vehicles to be equipped with this function. The way it works is simple: after an accident, the system is supposed to call the emergency services. This is especially important when the driver is no longer able to do so himself.
Recent tests have now shown that there may be errors in the data transmission of the emergency call, which no longer guarantee the reliability of the system. An immediate delivery stop is the consequence.
Even a recall for cars that have already been delivered is on the table. Production figures look gloomy at the moment. Of the planned 100,000, only 8,400 cars came off the assembly line in 2019. And that had nothing to do with the crisis we ran into a few months ago.
Only recently, works council chairman Bernd Osterloh had expressed his anger about the many problems with the current generation Golf: "If you're playing with the Golf's future, you're also playing with the future of our employees."
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When are the car makers are going to unite with the public and tell the politicians that they are legislating the car business out of business because their demands are so unrealistic?
Right? I mean, I do understand that certain things need to be regulated, but some requirements are just silly. And in the end, they open the doors to thousands of liability claims. I guarantee you, some idiot, who crashes his car because of...
Read moreAs of a while now, if you end up crashing your car, emergency flashers would come on by themselves.
Obviously, they had to put some sensors in the car, and write a short programme to make it work.
How much more difficult is it to add a code so...
Read moreEvery half baked system they build into cars adds to the unnecessary complexity of modern car electrics, and those modern electrics are far from robust. Too many toys... not enough reliability and longevity.
Not to mention the extra cost and weight added to the cars.
every new generation of cars is giving me more things to block or delete with coding or flashing ...
If there were no warranty issues, I would have done a few coding mods myself. Like for example permanently disabling the start/stop system so I don‘t have to manually do that every time I start the car.
Coding is mostly not problem and easy to reverse on BMW you can even recode so it memorize last status of start stop so if you disable it last time you drive car it will stay disable everytime , flashing is more problem for some manufacturers and...
Read moreI'd love to see those green signal strengths above every car in real life.
That would be hilarious!
HA!
Typical German car electronics.
It does NOT work.
I'd bet Toyota's work.