I think you want travel assist. ACC on the ID3 is just radar controlled cruise control. There is no stop/start traffic mode as far as I Can see. I had a GTE and an Audi that both had traffic assist, I miss it, but can live without it. But VW suggest it might be an OTA upgrade at a later date.

 

That doesn't sound right to me, I've got a 1st edition so I think ACC only not travel assist. It quite happily will completely stop and start the car using ACC in traffic jams, there's a limit to how long it will stay stopped before you have to press the accelerate to renable, for me it works really well.

 

Hello! Looking at ordering an ID.3 Family but struggling to find a concrete answer for the difference between ACC and Travel Assist.

I have ACC on my Golf GTE and it's exactly what I want: radar-regulated cruise control with traffic jam start-and-stop when required. I assume ACC on the ID.3 is exactly the same as this—and that Travel Assist simply adds automatic steering control into the mix (which I don't want). Is this correct?

Many thanks

ID3 owner here. you’re 100% right. ACC limits / follows the speed of the car in front of you. And works (very well) in stop start traffic. TA (that I don’t have on my base life model) assists the steering to keep you in a motorway lane (for example).

ACC is superb.

 

If you don't want lane assist then you can turn it off. ACC on the ID3 is more advanced than the GTE (I have just moved from GTE to ID3 family). If you have it enabled to recognise speed signs it will also adjust your speed to match the limit (although there a a lot of badly placed signs that fool it). It will also automatically slow you down on sharp bends or approaching roundabouts and junctions.

Stop and start also works well.

 

ACC is the same on all ID.3 models, and does indeed bring you to a complete stop in traffic and will automatically start moving as well with traffic flows as long as you haven’t been stationary too long.

Have a thought for the rear brake lights blinding the driver behind you if you’re sat for a long while though.

The ACC is paired with Lane Assist on all ID.3s, and will intervene in situations where inattentiveness means you drift out of your lane, provided that the front camera has worked out the edges and centre of the road that is.

It will not follow a lane ‘hands off’ for very long at all, for that you need Travel Assist which will steer the vehicle for longer periods keeping it in the lane or around a bend etc. It will still warm and disengage if it detects you don’t have hands on the wheel for lengthy periods though.

 

Ah fantastic, thank you everyone for all your help, that's exactly what I wanted to hear! Appreciate your help as always. Cheers