welcome to something a little bit different here on lineus Tech tips we
had a unique opportunity to travel all the way to Germany to test drive the all
new BMW 1 Series so I guess that's
pretty much all there is to say other than come along for the
ride this is the allnew one series from
BMW a line of sporty economical hatchbacks that might surprise you
considering how much performance and Tech they've managed to cram into a car
of this class compared to previous model mod the appearance of the new lineup has
been significantly improved they've added an allnew front bumper design with
bigger intakes Slimmer LED headlights and classic BMW L-shaped LED tail lights
that weren't present on previous 1 series Vehicles it's available in a
variety of engine sizes ranging from 109 horsepower 3-cylinder all the way up to
a 326 horsepower turbocharged inline 6
rocket ship with manual and automatic gearboxes available powering either rear
wheel drive or BMW's all wheel X drive
now our car is equipped with an X Drive 120 diesel boasting the M sport package
which features this sharp looking estal blue color a sporty front clip 17-in
rims and an exclusive side trim but of
course if I spent this whole video blathering on about rims cornering
acceleration and breaking you'd probably think you clicked on the wrong Channel
and besides I'm comparing this to my heavily neglected 2003 Lambo anyway so
why don't I do a solid a favor and leave the car reviews to the car guys which a
was that too soon and hop on over to some of the top Tech features of our
loaded up one series
oh holy cow this thing has a lot of
buttons on it look at this you can set like eight different radio stations I
can do like six in mind I don't think that's the technology we're supposed to
be focused on
but first up for me was the nav system now obviously I'm in Fring Germany so I
relied pretty heavily on this bad boy the pre-loaded maps feature realtime
traffic on this like sick 3D view or a
more traditional view if you prefer that and some other sweet add-ons including
different route mapping for best fuel economy least amount of time or shortest
route realtime speed limit updates using a front-facing camera in the windshield
to tell you hey there's a construction zone or hey there's adverse weather
conditions and this one is cool background monitoring of topographical
information that allows adaptive downshifting of the automatic
transmission When approaching an uphill
and it can also work with the cruise control system to decrease speed when it
notices you're about to approach a corner with all that said all the smart
navigation features in the world won't completely stop you from being an idiot
behind the
wheel sorry but we can laugh about all
of that and show off some more features now because I clearly survived now to be
clear most most of the features we're showing off are powered by BMW's
optional connected Drive which uses a built-in 3G or LTE SIM card that sits in
a crash protected enclosure in the rear of the vehicle with the purchase of this
feature you get text messages SOS calls and an unlimited data plan with no
roaming from one European country to another and you can use that data plan
for other cool stuff as well like Wiki local a button you press to see cool
stuff to do nearby or getting real-time stock updates in the dash of your car if
you're into that sort of thing to expand BMW online's functionality you can plug
in a compatible phone in the armrest either with an adapter or USB cable run
the BMW connection assistant this stuff
just like voice calls through your car speakers does use your own phone so your
own mobile plan but also has some interesting third party apps internet
radio was one that let me feel a little more at home even though I was on the
other side of the world and audible can actually be integrated into your dash
and let you listen to your favorite audiobooks without fumbling around on
your phone while driving but if you're not that into audiobooks how about this
one there's a GoPro app that's sick Nick where's the GoPro we should totally set
it up I didn't bring
it all right okay
so this is a totally contrived
opportunity for us to use the concierge
service now Luke actually tried this
back at CES 2 years ago and said it was
pretty impressive he basically said they have to pretty much do whatever you ask
and they can't hang up on you so Luke like kept the guy on the phone forever
we're not going to do that but we're just going to place a call and we're
going to get someone to tell us where to buy a GoPro in Munich so let's see how
this goes welcome to BMW connected Drive
speaking with lius lson how I help you wow your name's
lius yes it is that is the coolest thing ever my name's lius I don't meet
many well then I'm happy to meet another
lus that is fantastic don't worry I have an actual reason for calling you um I'm
in I'm in Munich right now which I guess
you probably know and I need to buy a GoPro camera so
I need like a general electronics store and I was hoping that you could help me
find one and turn navigation system on to help me get
there okay let's see
here I would guess they have them at
media Mark are they open right now let's
see here's one and it actually seems to
be open oh awesome well it's actually not that far from your current position
either it's uh well air distance is uh
4.6 km great sending it to your car as we speak
as a destination so just let me know when it shows
up uh yep it looks like that has shown up for me so uh I guess I just press
okay yes uh it's either okay or start
guidance yeah I'll go with start guidance since there is no okay on the
screen yeah all right okay s is there something
else I can help you with at the moment no I think that's it thank you very much
lonus same to you lonus and if anything else
just call us back all right thank you very much his name's
lonus all right we got it so I guess now the uh the next step is to get this
mounted on the car and go find uh go find somewhere interesting to drive I
don't have my keys how am I going to open this package breaking all the
things I say that as if this is something new for me oh look at that
it's open already okay hold on starting
preview sweet it's upside down well I was holding it upside down so nice so
let's go preview our position for
it the preview goes away when you go into drive
but recording look at that Bippity bity
magic Cinderella nonsense all right
back to actual driving technology the adaptive cruise control or whatever BMW
calls it is one thing that blew my socks off there's basically a radar box in the
front of the car that allows you to set a speed up to 210 kmph then just forget
about it you'll automatically slow down and even stop if the car in front of you
decelerates and then stays stopped for less than 2
seconds I want to put my foot back down but I don't need to apparently
and last but not least the all new one series Parks
itself not just parallell but even into
a stall using an array of sensors on the
bumpers we've got the mode on and we're just kind of cruising along in the
parking lot and of course oh hey I was
going to say of course the time you go to demo it it doesn't work but it did
reverse slowly and break manually uh-huh
okay this is kind of tripping me out right
now you can see okay the sensors are
like yeah I don't like that but you're I mean you're the one doing this
so uh-huh yeah oh drive forward
slowly uh-huh yeah
secure vehicle against rolling away you got it
buddy so I guess that's pretty much it I want to thank the people of Germany for
being so hospitable and I want to thank you guys as well for watching the video
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