Doc H

Contemplating for about the dozenth time the graphic view of my car when it pops up reversing, I've come to wonder why it is even there as a selection. It's an overhead pictorial representation of the car, disconnected from anything else. It tells you nothing, gives you no information, is no help in maneuvering the car. I know what my car looks like from the top, with no need for a graphic reminder. Looking at it in the users manual would be just as helpful. Why is it even there? WTH Audi?

SarhoshAmiral

Top down camera view has been quite useful for me in my current car (not an Audi). It tells you if there is an obstacle on the side that might not be visible otherwise, you can also see front and back at the same time.

Brimstone

I think in certain cases the graphic view could be more useful than the camera view. Particularly if you have bad eyesight or over certain backdrops.

I find the camera to be more useful 99% of the time though.

Doc H

Agree the top CAMERA view is very useful - I wish that was what was displayed all the time. The GRAPHIC view, however, shows nothing but the top view of your car on a black background. No surrounding obstacles, no curbs, no passing pedestrians, no relative motion - just a picture of your car (actually, probably not even your car but an artist's rendering).

SarhoshAmiral

In that case I agree, when you have top view camera it is annoying to start with just sensor view. I wonder if that can be changed with OBDEleven

BarryT

I have mine set up to show the bumper sensors with the top view camera. I changed it in the coding with VCDS.

BigKutta

Are you saying that when you go in Reverse, your 360 cameras dont display on the screen, and only the graphic view?

Doc H

Yes, that is correct about 25% of the time. Along with I believe just about every other 2018 Q7 owner, at least according to this forum.

bigpimpinthed

Same.

BigKutta

So do you have to hit the button on the dash to turn on/off again, or do you go in drive and then reverse again to get the camera view? Very frustrating....