On my 2023 T6.1 is there a way to be able to show YouTube, Netflix etc. (for my passenger ) on the original screen while driving?
I know its not legal but...
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Yes - the buttonless version
I can’t believe that anybody thinks this is a good idea. Phones are a bad enough distraction. I’ve lost too many friends knocked of motorbikes by distracted drivers to even have a glimmer of understanding why someone would want this or even help them achieve it.
I’m with you. People seem to think they can treat driving as a break between phones, eating, drinking, doing balloons…
See distracted drivers everywhere now and we all pay hefty insurance because of it.
Or an even higher price.
I do remember seeing a standard unit with a screen that although angled normally, could only be seen by the passenger. Top Gear maybe or some other car program
I believe some jaagggs and Range Rooneys have this feature.
I couldn't have phrased it better than this.
Just No.
So, it turns out Apple and Google both decided this was a terrible idea too. Shocking, I know. Honestly, I get these calls all the time—usually from 19-year-olds in Mk7 Golf R’s who think they’ve cracked the code to life. Spoiler: they haven’t. Quick Google search confirms that Danish and UK laws are in full agreement here, so it’s not just us being “boring grown-ups.”
@Sackmycook , you’re thinking of the Range Rover. In those, passengers can watch a film from DVD, USB or whatever, while the driver is stuck with radio and sat nav. Still a dreadful idea in our opinion—imagine trying to focus on the road while your mates are watching Bad Boys or Die Hard next to you. Safe? Not so much.
Now, because we’re a respectable and responsible company:
- Yes, there are ways to make Android Auto and Apple CarPlay do this.
- Yes, we know all the workarounds.
- No, we absolutely will not do it or tell you how.
But, if you’re genuinely keen on in-car entertainment for your passengers, we can offer a proper, safe, and legal solution: For a one-off fee of around £1500, we’ll supply four 10" Android tablets and four sets of Sony XM4 headphones. Extra passengers? No problem—additional media outlets are approx £350 each. We can also install mobile broadband so you can stream from all the usual services (monthly cost applies), and for those long hauls, we’ll fit USB outlets that actually meet the PD Standard.
@Sackmycook , you’re thinking of the Range Rover. In those, passengers can watch a film from DVD, USB or whatever, while the driver is stuck with radio and sat nav. Still a dreadful idea in our opinion—imagine trying to focus on the road while your mates are watching Bad Boys or Die Hard next to you. Safe? Not so much.
Now, because we’re a respectable and responsible company:
- Yes, there are ways to make Android Auto and Apple CarPlay do this.
- Yes, we know all the workarounds.
- No, we absolutely will not do it or tell you how.
But, if you’re genuinely keen on in-car entertainment for your passengers, we can offer a proper, safe, and legal solution: For a one-off fee of around £1500, we’ll supply four 10" Android tablets and four sets of Sony XM4 headphones. Extra passengers? No problem—additional media outlets are approx £350 each. We can also install mobile broadband so you can stream from all the usual services (monthly cost applies), and for those long hauls, we’ll fit USB outlets that actually meet the PD Standard.
I think manufacturers are making controls equally as dangerous / distracting. I wouldn’t buy a vehicle where everything is controlled via a touch screen.
The T6 heater controls, for example, are easy to reach / find / operate with a cursory glance or without looking at all.
I’d take a knob any day of the week (over a touchscreen
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The T6 heater controls, for example, are easy to reach / find / operate with a cursory glance or without looking at all.
I’d take a knob any day of the week (over a touchscreen
)Our Disco had this. We only used it for the boys in the back (headrest screens and headphones) - the headphones were very nice.
I replicated it in my Cali 5.1 with a small TV and Bluetooth headphones. The boys are older now so it’s mobiles and iPads in my T6 with a Starlink fallback for “not spots”!
I don't use my head unit for navigation as I feel it is in the wrong place of where I want to be looking, so I have a standalone GPS on the dash and a phone mount for the Waze as I always run both together specially when doing long Europe trips that I regularly do. I use the GPS speed and rarely even look at the instrument panel at all other than if something flashes up or there is a beep.
Yep, that's the one I remember. And I remember thinking it was not a good idea at the time, totally agree it's still a big distraction
Our last D4 had a fancy head unit with a kind of prismatic screen. The passenger could watch a DVD whilst the driver could only see the Navigation screen. It wasn’t very good tbh, the picture quality was poor. It also induced travel sickness.
On a separate note, on our van MIB2 HU, initially you couldn’t input a new destination if the vehicle was traveling over 5mph, this meant that the co-pilot (Mrs Spuds) couldn’t change the destination if we were moving. There’s an adaptation channel in VCDS that allows you to set the speed at which the input locks out. I just changed this to something silly like 150mph and the job’s a good un.
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