Assisted driving notes

Like all Transporter T6.1s, the Sportline comes with VW’S Front Assist autonomous emergency braking system as standard, as well as an adaptive cruise control system and a driver monitoring system. You can add a lane keeping assistance system, with Side Assist blindspot monitoring, for £1230. Our vehicle didn’t have it. VW’S Front Assist AEB system can be tuned to intervene either early or late, or deactivated entirely, through the touchscreen infotainment system. We tested it in both its middle and lower intervention settings and found it unintrusive at all times. It doesn’t offer pedestrian or cyclist detection, however. The adaptive cruise control is a simple system without any speed limit detection or automatic speed adaptation functionality, although it does offer a manual speed limiter if you prefer. A speed limit detection system would be a useful addition but only comes as an option.

AUTONOMOUS EMERGENCY BRA KING

Does the system seem prone to false activation? ✗ Can it be deactivated? ✓ Does it have pedestrian/cyclist detection? ✗

LANE KEEPING ASSISTANCE

Not fitted.

INTELLIGENT CRUISE CONTROL

Can the system consistently recognise and automatically adopt motorway gantry-signed variable speed limits? ✗ Does it prevent undertaking? ✓ Does it have effective audible or visual alerts, or steering intervention, to prevent changing lanes into the path of an overtaking car? ✓ (Side Assist optional)