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Digital hey guys we're at the Intel Booth checking out the BMW i3 I know we
don't review cars we review computers but this car is kind of turning into a
computer so I thought it would might be okay before you get into the car using
your phone you can do many things you can locate it on a map you can send maps
to it as a destination you can unlock and lock the doors you can Flash the
headlights and honk the horn you can check your tire pressure and you can see
how much available range you have left amongst other things and that's just
before you get into the car once you're in the car your phone seamlessly
integrates to everything BMW has introduced connected Drive which is a
way of syncing your phone with your car through app apis which is quite
wonderful something that I did while I was in the car was actually I set up a
Pandora playlist through my phone which was very quick and very easy to do and I
was able to set out a tweet which I've deleted now but still which just I put
GPS data in the car and it was able to tweet out
um I am going to and then bleep like where I was going to uh which is
actually pretty interesting because the whole idea with this car is you're not supposed to type anything there's
predefined messages and stuff so you can quickly use their dial system to be able
to quickly access the predefined messages and you're not supposed to be
distracted while you're driving which honestly is not something that I can complain about you don't install apps on
the car one thing that's interesting is if you have older like smart enabled
cars they have apps installed on them but they become kind of outdated after a
while and might not necessarily matter what's cool about this car is you don't
install the apps you install them on your phone which is really easy to manage and then your phone syncs their
apis through the car so you can control them with the car but it's all going through your phone this car is smart if
you start to go outside of your range or if you've given giving it a destination
that is outside of your range it'll automatically react and start trying to
give you options so a few things that it can do is give you an option of a
charging station that's right beside public transit so you can set your car up to charge and take public transit or
it'll just show you char stations along the way and give you optional
destinations like mini destinations so you can stop there along your route also
if you're worried about that at all there's a two-cylinder 650cc repurposed
motorcycle engine which you can use as a generator to charge up the car if you're
nowhere near a charging station but charging stations are becoming much more
common these days the conci a service is wonderful it's about $250 for 3 years to
get 3G access to the car and then that enables a whole bunch of different
functionality about maps and all this other kind of stuff because the car will have 3G so it can show you where it is
on a map and a bunch of other things and then on top of that there's $150 for3
years charge for concierge which breaks down to about $50 per year which is
really not that bad for how awesome it is you just press a button on the car
and then someone connects to you through uh phone service through the car and
then you can ask them anything so something I did was I asked them for bubble tea so I'm going to ask them for
Bubble Tea in Las Vegas says this is Brandon how I help
you hi I was wondering if I can get some Bubble Tea in Las Vegas I do apologize
sir what was the first part of that I was wondering if we could get bubble tea in Las
Vegas just a moment pull it up for you no problem yeah I did pull one up about
three miles away from you looks like the closest that sounds great by any chance
do you know if they have honeydew bubble tea uh yeah I can pull their website just a moment they do that sounds great
and you can push that map to my car yes sir it should be available
shortly perfect thank you very much you're welcome sirud call one aesh day
awesome have a great day say you got into an accident one really cool thing this car can do is detect what type of
accident it was so say you flipped or you rolled or you got rear ended or you
rear ended someone else it can then figure out how many people were in the
car and uh try and figure out how severe the accident was and call emergency
services and get them there as soon as possible although this car is quite
protected because it is made out of carbon fiber it's still good to know that that security blanket is there
again guys I know we don't review cars but this car is practically a computer
so I thought I would do it anyways it's incredible how connected this car in
once you get into the car you you you realize that it is is a experience based
on your phone it is experience based on wireless data is experience based on how
everything else in the technical community is moving cars are finally
getting to that point in my opinion so as always thank you for watching this
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