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and we're back at BMW again this time it's going to be a little bit different

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so last time we got to see the inside of a tent and we got to see a car from the

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outside this time we're seeing the outside of a tent and we are going to be

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playing around in the I8 mirrorless from

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the inside actually taking her for a drive so this would be my first time

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ever driving well anything this high

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performance so I am actually pretty stoked right now let's get going

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so the test drive started out with a few surprises number one is that the I8 was

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really really comfortable for me sometimes it's nice to be small wow this

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is a car that I actually feel like right at home in at my size look at that

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number two is I was actually surprised as many of our viewers know I'm really

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not that much of a car guy so I was surprised when we started the car and I

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realized that it has a three-cylinder supplementary gasoline motor which

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contributed along with some simul sounds

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to the car not being as quiet as I had initially

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expected though switching to Pure electric mode later was a very different

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and very silent experience that is really quiet and number three the

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mirrorless rear view display I guess is

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what I'm going to call it was a lot better than I expected and the camera's

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hooked up to it really really impressed goodness you can see the entirety of

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behind you that is way better which doesn't mean

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that I got the hang of it right off the bat in fact the first thing I did when I

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went to back out of the parking stall was to wrench my back around put my hand

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on the back of the passenger seat and try to stare out the back of the vehicle

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no no no that's not what to do you are

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actually just supposed to stare at the mirror and monitor the live video feed

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from the cameras that are directly out the back of the car and and the ones

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that are positioned where normally the rearview mirrors would be on the left

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and right side of the vehicle so from

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there it was pretty much Off to the Races I mean it's not to say that it

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went completely smoothly especially at the beginning of the test drive I was

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constantly trying to check my mirrors on the left and right side of the car but

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what's interesting about even that is that my behavior started to shift very

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very quickly something that I don't think would have happened if this system

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wasn't so cool so let's talk a little bit about the cameras they're positioned

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on the right and left side mirrors facing backwards or where the mirrors

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would be see I can't even help but call those positions the mirrors and then

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there are two additional ones that are on the body of the car pointed towards

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the back those are the depth ones so let's talk a little bit more about those

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cameras there are four 1.3 megapixel

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cameras and let me tell you this is not the 1.3 megapixel camera that's in that

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cheap Chromebook that you were looking at as kind of a disposable computer not

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all pixels are created equally and I have to say these ones looked really

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really good now I did only get to try the car in broad daylight but BMW is

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saying that with the extra time that they have between building a concept car

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and actually bringing this product to Market they have a lot more work to do

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and they're confident that they will be delivering nighttime vision capabilities

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out of these cameras without relying on infrared light that exceed the

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capabilities of an unassisted human and

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the other thing that I thought was really cool about them is the way that

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the whole thing is stitched together so when you're just driving down the road

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and the most important thing is hey what's behind my car all of a sudden

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with one glance you've got not just what's outside the rear window but what

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is outside the rear almost

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180° of the vehicle it's great for being

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able to get a quick and efficient glance

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at what is important to me as the driver

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and this is neat too the information actually changes depending on the

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context of what I'm doing as a driver so for example hitting the turn signal to

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turn is going to go ahead and widen up the stitching on that side so that I can

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get a better idea if there's say for example a pedestrian to the side of my

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car that might have snuck up on me or a cyclist coming up beside me in in a bike

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lane but that's not all they can do so the four rear viiew cameras can actually

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work with the other four cameras and sensors that enable BMW's like bird's

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eye outof Body Experience thing that we saw the other day with the I3 where that

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car was able to park itself look at lines on the road to find well the

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parking spots to park itself and this is cool if someone bumps it send you an

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alert that gives you this live view of what the car looks like from the outside

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so you can check for then and then they take that mode and they

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put it to even better use so this is an issue that I have with sportier cars and

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really cars in general it's often very

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very difficult to shoulder check and see into the blind spot that is created by a

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traditional mirror setup this takes it one step further not only can you see

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completely behind you to the left when you're trying to change lanes on the

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highway for example you can see the entire rear of the car at a Glen

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in a way that is genuinely useful and what do I mean by genuinely

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useful ah yes very good question if this

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system had an unacceptable degree of

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latency I would be crapping all over it

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because that is totally unacceptable at the speeds that you might be moving

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never mind on the Autobon but even on a regular Highway here in North America

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and I have to say BMW has done a pretty

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bang up job of of not only just having a low latency camera and display but also

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doing all of the processing that they're doing pretty much in real time check out

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this demo okay so uh this will be an

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interesting test of the latency of the system you guys will be able to see my

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mouth moving we're not going to mess with this at all and I'm wearing a

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lavalier microphone on me that'll give you guys an exact idea of how much delay

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there is between something happening and what's on the screen

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so I guess all that's left to say at this point is what a freaking cool

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practical application of Technology on

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this concept car and I wish I could say this concept car and point behind me

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but that's just the regular I8 it's the one with actual mirrors which for now is

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fine because at the moment at least in the US driving around in a car with no

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mirrors is not actually street legal but that doesn't change the fact that I got

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to drive one it doesn't change the fact that it's really cool and way way better

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than I expected to be and it doesn't change the fact that that technology is

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most assuredly coming so a huge thanks

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to BMW for hosting us here for allowing me to take their I8 mirrorless concept

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out for a drive and a huge thanks to you guys for checking out this and all our

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other content here at CES 2016