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Digital hey guys we're at the Intel Booth checking out the BMW i3 I know we

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don't review cars we review computers but this car is kind of turning into a

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computer so I thought it would might be okay before you get into the car using

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your phone you can do many things you can locate it on a map you can send maps

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to it as a destination you can unlock and lock the doors you can Flash the

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headlights and honk the horn you can check your tire pressure and you can see

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how much available range you have left amongst other things and that's just

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before you get into the car once you're in the car your phone seamlessly

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integrates to everything BMW has introduced connected Drive which is a

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way of syncing your phone with your car through app apis which is quite

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wonderful something that I did while I was in the car was actually I set up a

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Pandora playlist through my phone which was very quick and very easy to do and I

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was able to set out a tweet which I've deleted now but still which just I put

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GPS data in the car and it was able to tweet out

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um I am going to and then bleep like where I was going to uh which is

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actually pretty interesting because the whole idea with this car is you're not supposed to type anything there's

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predefined messages and stuff so you can quickly use their dial system to be able

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to quickly access the predefined messages and you're not supposed to be

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distracted while you're driving which honestly is not something that I can complain about you don't install apps on

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the car one thing that's interesting is if you have older like smart enabled

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cars they have apps installed on them but they become kind of outdated after a

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while and might not necessarily matter what's cool about this car is you don't

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install the apps you install them on your phone which is really easy to manage and then your phone syncs their

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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

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you start to go outside of your range or if you've given giving it a destination

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that is outside of your range it'll automatically react and start trying to

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give you options so a few things that it can do is give you an option of a

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charging station that's right beside public transit so you can set your car up to charge and take public transit or

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it'll just show you char stations along the way and give you optional

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destinations like mini destinations so you can stop there along your route also

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if you're worried about that at all there's a two-cylinder 650cc repurposed

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motorcycle engine which you can use as a generator to charge up the car if you're

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nowhere near a charging station but charging stations are becoming much more

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common these days the conci a service is wonderful it's about $250 for 3 years to

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get 3G access to the car and then that enables a whole bunch of different

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functionality about maps and all this other kind of stuff because the car will have 3G so it can show you where it is

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on a map and a bunch of other things and then on top of that there's $150 for3

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years charge for concierge which breaks down to about $50 per year which is

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really not that bad for how awesome it is you just press a button on the car

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and then someone connects to you through uh phone service through the car and

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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

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Bubble Tea in Las Vegas says this is Brandon how I help

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you hi I was wondering if I can get some Bubble Tea in Las Vegas I do apologize

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sir what was the first part of that I was wondering if we could get bubble tea in Las

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Vegas just a moment pull it up for you no problem yeah I did pull one up about

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three miles away from you looks like the closest that sounds great by any chance

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do you know if they have honeydew bubble tea uh yeah I can pull their website just a moment they do that sounds great

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and you can push that map to my car yes sir it should be available

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shortly perfect thank you very much you're welcome sirud call one aesh day

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awesome have a great day say you got into an accident one really cool thing this car can do is detect what type of

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accident it was so say you flipped or you rolled or you got rear ended or you

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rear ended someone else it can then figure out how many people were in the

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car and uh try and figure out how severe the accident was and call emergency

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services and get them there as soon as possible although this car is quite

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protected because it is made out of carbon fiber it's still good to know that that security blanket is there

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again guys I know we don't review cars but this car is practically a computer

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so I thought I would do it anyways it's incredible how connected this car in

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once you get into the car you you you realize that it is is a experience based

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on your phone it is experience based on wireless data is experience based on how

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everything else in the technical community is moving cars are finally

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getting to that point in my opinion so as always thank you for watching this

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