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Intelligent
Technology
The vehicle 's ability to start may be impaired by
the energy us e, a message will appear in the In-
fotainment
system disp lay . The message indi-
cates that the system will switch off automatical -
ly soon. If you would like to continue using the
functions, you must start the engine .
With the engine running
Although electrical energy is generated while
driving, the battery can drain. This can happen
when little energy is generated,
and much is used
and the charge level of the battery is not optimal.
To restore the balance of energy, components
that require large amounts of energy are tempo-
rarily scaled back or switched off . Heating sys-
tems in particular require a great deal of energy .
If you notice , for example, that the seat heating*
or rear window defroster is not working, then it
has been temporarily reduced or switched off .
These systems are available again as soon as the
energy ba lance has been restored.
In addition, you may notice that the idle speed
has slightly increased. That is normal and no
cause for concern. Due to the increased idling
speed, the additional required energy will be
generated and the battery will be charged .
Notice
about
data
recorded
by the
Event
Data
Recorder
and
vehicle
control
modules
Event Data Recorder
This vehicle is equipped with an Event Data Re-
corder (EDR). The main purpose of an EDR is to
record, in certain crash or near crash-like situa-
tions, such as an airbag deployment or hitting a
road obstacle , data that will assist in understand-
ing how a vehicle 's systems performed. The EDR
is designed to record data related to vehicle dy-
namics and safety systems for a short period of
time, typically 30 seconds or less. The EDR in this
vehicle is designed to record such data as :
- How various systems in your vehicle were oper-
ating;
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- Whether or not the drive r and passenger safety
belts were buckled/fastened;
- How far (if at all) the driver was depressing the
accelerator and/or brake pedal; and,
- How fast the vehicle was traveling.
These data can help provide a better understand-
ing of the circumstances
in which crashes and in-
juries occur. NOTE: EDR data are recorded by your
vehicle on ly if a non-trivial crash situation occurs;
no data are recorded by the EDR under normal
driving conditions and no personal data (e .g .,
name, gender, age, and crash location) are re-
corded . However, other parties, such as law en-
forcement, could combine the EDR data with the
type of personally identifying data routinely ac-
quired during a crash investigation .
To read data recorded by an EDR, special equip-
ment is required, and access to the vehicle or the
EDR is needed . In addition to the vehicle manu -
facturer, other part ies, such as law enforcement,
that have the special equ ipment, can read the in-
format ion if they have access to the vehicle or the
EDR.
Some state laws restrict the retrieval or down-
loading of data stored by ED Rs installed in a vehi-
cle for the express purpose of retrieving data af-
ter an accident or crash event without the own-
er's consent.
Audi will not access the EDR and/or similar data
or give it to others -
- unless the vehicle owner (or lessee if the vehi-
cle has been leased) agrees; or
- upon the official request by the police; or
- upon the order of a court of law or a govern -
ment agency; or
- for the defense of a lawsuit through the judicial
discovery process.
- Audi may also use the data for research about
vehicle operation and safety performance or
provide the data to a third party for research
purposes without identifying the specific vehi-
cle or information about the identity of its own-
er or lessee and only after the recorded vehicle
data has been accessed.
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