![]() ![]() It can also learn your habits as a driver. Based on an evaluation of 440 million drivers’ journeys across the world, the new iDrive system can determine what sort of climate controls to engage at certain points, at certain times. IDrive 8 uses machine learning to even adjust the climate control. It can even help the driver find a parking space and will ask if such a task is required shortly before arriving at the destination. It can even use popular points of interest to determine potential traffic patterns, thus allowing for a far more accurate ETA, or even alternative routes. It no longer uses just traffic data but also learned probabilities. Using cloud-based data, BMW’s new iDrive 8 can provide estimated times of arrival far more accurately than before. Navigations is also more accurate than ever, thanks to machine learning. Not sure if it’s necessary to have more modes but, with over-the-air updates, BMW can add new ones that work or potentially even remove ones that don’t. There’s also a Personal mode, which - you guessed it - is personal and customizable.Īt launch, those three modes will be the only My Modes available but BMW is said to be implementing more as time goes on. Switching between modes is also accompanied by a corresponding sound. In Efficient, a calming blue becomes the cabin’s dominant color, while Sport mode gets an orange-dominated cabin. There are the usual Efficiency and Sport modes, which set the car up for a calmer and sportier driving environment, respectively. It’s all very theatric and designed to make entering the car more of an event.īMW’s My Modes are essentially presets for up to ten different functions. ![]() Once you open the door, the seat positions itself to make it easier for you to enter, the center console illuminates, seat and steering wheel heaters come on (if in use), and the screens show entrance animations. Once you’re within one and a half meters, the car doors unlock and the side mirrors unfold. Carpet lighting from the door sills will illuminate the ground for you, as the door handles illuminate to help you grab them at night. Its headlights and taillights will slowly start to illuminate, as will lights inside the cabin. As you approach the car with the key (or smartphone with the digital key) and come within three meters, the car will gradually begin a welcome greeting. If you like to make an entrance, there’s also the new Great Entrance Moments feature and it’s exactly as it sounds. So if you need to use a loaner car while yours is getting serviced, you just enter your BMW ID PIN into the new car and everything will be setup the way you like it. Interestingly, that BMW ID profile can be used in any car with iDrive 7 or 8. This BMW ID profile consists of nearly all the driver’s personalized settings, from seat position to exterior mirrors. With it, drivers create a profile for themselves, that’s tied to a PIN code and the My BMW app. However, if the passenger engages, the assistant’s little graphic is displayed in the upper right-hand corner of the curved iDrive screen.īMW ID is also an interesting personalization feature. So if the driver engages it, its little glowing orb thingy appears in either the driver’s head-up display or instrument panel. Though, it is a quite clever assistant, in that it knows who’s talking to it. I’d love to hear what a light-hearted German AI sounds like. It’s also said that the personal assistant now answers questions and responds to the passengers in a more light-hearted, but still precise, manner. That date was then used to create the gestures used to communicate with the car. ![]() BMW studied test people and told them to answer questions nonverbally, allowing BMW to study those answers. Taking it a step further, driver’s can now use Gesture Control to interact with it. A glowing orb that moves and changes, in response to a driver’s commands, allows the driver to better interact with it. The new personal voice assistant AI (BMW’s Siri) has been given not only an upgrade but also a face. Gesture Control remains but it’s also been given an upgrade, in addition to the BMW Intelligent Personal Assistant. They’re still customizable and still easy to use, though they do come with an extra step this time around. However, a simple swipe down from the top of the curved iDrive display, or a tilt upward on the rotary controller, and your preset buttons emerge on the screen. Those dedicated and customizable buttons you’ve become some accustomed to are back, though this time they are built into the touchscreen.
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