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i'm back baby i'm all the way in munich germany where we are checking out what

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bmw is calling next gen they sponsored

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our trip out here to show off some of their visions for the future of

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automotive technology and i am really excited to see what they've got in store

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so we're inside now where the big star of the show is obviously their vision

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and next unveiling here now we're gonna get hands on with these cars in just a

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moment but we gotta wait our turn and apparently this time slot is reserved

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for none other than paris hilton so i'm gonna sit and patiently wait and then i

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will get you guys the update in one moment okay our turn

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so behind me is three vehicles that are part of bmw's vision next so that's the

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inex they actually showed that last year

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it's more about the sort of relaxed vision of the future where your car

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drives you and you're kind of sitting in a mobile living experience

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this is the star of the show today and this is the m next so it's still got a ton of

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technology in it because this is their vision for the future but it's

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technology that's really geared around the manual driving experience

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so let's take a closer look at it starting from the front you've got this

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spectacular mix of the old and the new

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so you've got the classic bmw dual kidney grille except

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it's not a grille so it's a plug-in hybrid vehicle with an advertised 0 to

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60 of 3 seconds and then a 62 mile range

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but because it gets most of its power from electric they actually don't have an air

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intake at the front of the vehicle so this is instead

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etched glass that actually lights up

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from the side for this really stunning effect that accents the thrilling orange

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paint job just beautifully another really cool lighting technology is bmw's

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laser wire lights here so these use just

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these single wafer thin glass filaments

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and their laser lit which really opens up some new possibilities in terms of

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designing the shape and the style of the lights on the vehicle

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another tech that i've seen before but not that that makes it any less cool is

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the inclusion of 360 degrees of camera

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coverage for the vehicle which wait a second where's your rear view and side

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mirrors nowhere so my first time experiencing

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that was actually on the bmw i8 wireless demo a couple of years ago at ces it

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worked shockingly well then using screens on the inside of the vehicle

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rather than mirrors on the outside and you can see that bmw is still

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committed to exploring this concept it improves aerodynamics and from my

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experience doesn't degrade the driving experience

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at all in fact in some ways it was better because i had everything i needed

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to see right in my cone of vision they've got biometric door opening right

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here and then this is cool so these covers right here again in

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thrilling orange are not just for looks these actually improve the aerodynamics

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of the car along with this air scoop right here that serves a dual function

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as well cooling the rear brakes then at the back we find more of this

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mix of high-tech and traditional so they've actually borrowed from the air

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intakes of the m1 to create this glass

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rear windshield that obviously you wouldn't be able to see out of but you

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don't need to because of the 360 degree cameras and again they're using this

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like filament thin laser lighting to

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create an utterly unique rear to the car that i think looks absolutely phenomenal

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if i didn't need to drive kids around right so now it's time for our autonomous

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level 4 demo right over there is a 7 series that's

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one of about 80 cars in bmw's level 3

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and level 4 test fleet and there's

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nobody in it and we're going to use the like the the car hailing feature to get

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it to come pick us up so what do i do i just click just choose your destination

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where you want to go for example you want to go home go to work right

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okay and then just push pick me up pick me up

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so i was assuming i was gonna sit in the front

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but uh nope i just chill here this is it this is

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cool so check this out this seems to be what is this lidar data

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cool so this is actually the front end of the car that just pulled in behind us

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and then these right here this is a group of people that's walking around so

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you can actually see their their steps right now oh but i can i can click start

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ride okay cool so we can't go out on the road

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on this one for legal reasons

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but we can operate the car completely

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autonomously here in the parking lot and my understanding is that part of the

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demo is that they're going to try to throw the car for a bit of a loop by

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having an obstacle come out in front of us is that correct yes

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okay you can see here in real time these are updating i think it's what what uh 20

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times a second we're getting this

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real-time readout of the shape of the closed course that we're on here and

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then any obstacles so these are actually plants that you can see along the side

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here oh she's moving some tires

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we better stop yes we have detected the obstacle

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so if i were to leap out of the car and jump in front of it right now it would stop

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yes but don't do that i cannot allow that yeah yeah yeah

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really big problems got it got it got it

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processing parking

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look i know everyone else is gonna want like a natural human sounding voice but

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i'm more into like full robot car now a short drive around a closed parking lot

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might seem like a pretty underwhelming autonomous driving demo but that's only

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until you have a look at the underlying tech because none of it was pre-scripted

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so behind me they're doing the the talk for this demo and they cover a few

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things first and foremost is that they're expecting this kind of level 4

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driving technology to show up in their cars as early as 2021 which last i

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checked is not a long time from now the other thing was the comparison

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between how an autonomous vehicle can perceive the world and how a human can

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in terms of the intake of information so they show a couple of slides and then

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they take it away after a couple seconds and go okay well how many pedestrians

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were there how many cars were there and of course you don't know you can't remember those

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kinds of details but the car does in fact bmw had to

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build a new data center just to house

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all the data that they're getting from these cars the ones that are coming are

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going to be generating up to eight terabytes per hour of data to be sent

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back and analyzed so that the ai can learn from it so there's two different

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ways the car uses this information first is for the the overall mission so like

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go to bmw rope for example and that's

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gonna tell the car things like oh well we're gonna need to change lanes

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eventually so i can make a left turn but the part that was really fascinating to

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me was the visualization of the more immediate intent based processing that

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the car is doing it's taking everything around it in real time 20 times a second

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and trying to predict about the next

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anywhere from five to seven seconds and there's some really cool stuff here

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everything is color coded according to whether it's going the speed limit above

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the speed limit decelerating or stopped so red objects are stopped blue objects

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are going faster than the speed limit and pretty much everything has these

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little curves or lines that are coming out of

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the front so that tells us what the car is expecting that object to do based on

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a successful identification of the object like whether it's a motorcycle a

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truck a car or whatever the case may be now in some cases you might see that the

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car isn't sure maybe someone pulled into a left turn

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lane but they didn't signal so you might get two paths this one might go straight

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or it might go left and the car will approach with caution same thing for

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this bicycle rider for example who is standing by the side of the road looking

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like oh maybe they could just keep standing there or maybe they could fall

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over and followed into the street now there's still a lot of training work to

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be done but between their test fleet and the simulations that they run bmw is

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well on their way to the 240 million kilometers that they are required by

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their own internal quality standards to test each model for before being able to

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release it into the wild now it's time for our second driver assist demo of the

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day so this is demonstrating level two features and while the car itself

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doesn't look you know futuristic or abnormal in fact

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this is a three series that you could go to the lot and buy today if you wanted

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the software is different so we've actually got the developer who's driving

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our car i feel pretty cool about that and he's going to be showing us some of

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the features of what they're calling next level cruise control including the

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ability to automatically decelerate for a red light

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is that right without you touching it assuming you did your job

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assuming you did your job correctly is that why they make you drive it

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yeah yeah so he asked us for permission to drive

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fast so i apologize in advance for the camera being a little all over the place

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because i said yeah i want to have the full experience so unlike the level 4 demo we are

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actually going out on the road for this one is it stopping it's not david look

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look nice

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so once the light goes green it doesn't start moving for us remember this is not

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level three level four but it does detect that and makes a little

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audible tone hey wake up you gotta start moving now

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so on our second light it actually wasn't already red as we were

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approaching it it was yellow but the car started to decelerate anyway so the

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fundamental difference between this kind of driver assist technology versus

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autonomous operation is that the car is

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just taking a formula how fast am i going

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what status is the light and

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performing a fixed action it's not actually sensing contextual information

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about the environment and making a decision that's the key difference

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so i thought we were done i thought that was the last demo then they brought us

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into the theater here for a little closing ceremony and a last minute

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surprise so this right here is a concept bike that they're calling the vision dc

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roadster and it borrows some elements that we already saw earlier today like

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for example the recycled carbon fiber construction now this one's really got

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my attention for a couple of reasons it's fully electric it's fully connected

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and bmw promises it is 110

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what is it they call it pure driving pleasure something along those lines

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that sounds pretty good to me so thanks for watching guys thanks to

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bmw for sponsoring our trip out here if you guys disliked this video you know

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where that button is but if you liked it hit like get subscribed or maybe consider checking out where to buy the

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stuff we featured at the link below jk almost nothing we showed today is

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available but hey in the future right vision for later

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yeah that's the idea