My First Autonomous Driving Experience! - BMW @ CES 2017
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2017-05-06
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okay so lineus covered a number of features for BMW that were going to be
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enabled through something called the open Mobility cloud in his sculpture
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phase video but I I am going to try it
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in real life Brandon and I went on a wonderful drive with a prototype BMW 5
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series connected
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car when first getting into the car it automatically syncs your calendars
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shopping accounts entertainment and even the schedules and locations of your
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friends by accessing the open Mobility cloud or OMC this will let your car
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automatically plan your navigation and list your schedule for the day on your
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dash along with a few other things that we will discuss in more detail in a
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moment once you start driving a lot of monitoring and management is happening
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behind the scenes if you receive a text asking you to meet up OMC will scan the
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message Find the meaning of the message and then ask you if you want to accept
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the invitation if you do so it will add it to your calendar and plan your
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navigation accordingly at the same time
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OMC will be giving you information about the duration of red or green lights in
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front of you so you know if you need to wait and for how long it does this based
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on a database of information on all of the red lights in your city that it's
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gathered through working with the city and the observations of various other
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connected cars from both BMW and other
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OEM but moving to the back seat for a moment there's a passenger that was
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watching a movie last night on Amazon video but went to bed partway through
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OMC knows this and offers to keep playing it for them from where they left
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off when they accept OMC puts the car into a cinematic mode changing the
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ambient lighting and putting up a screen in the back window to lower display
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glare now this this was super cool we
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entered something called Convoy mode in this mode you can set your car to
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automatically follow the car of a friend of yours in front of you then you're
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free to do whatever you'd like as the car drives itself this was the first
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time that Brandon or I had experienced automated driving and man it is a wild
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feeling while the car is driving itself
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it's constantly checking for street signs that will display speed limit or
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Road information that will help it along the way it will sync this information
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with other connected cars so that they can all move around safer and more
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informed if it encounters something unexpected it will take itself out of
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automated driving mode and let you take back control it achieves this
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awesomeness through a mixture of cameras ultrasonic sensors radar and an HD map
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along with their ever evolving OMC data
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while it's doing all of that epic information juggling you are free to sit
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back and hang out I'd suggest even taking their gesture controls for a spin
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pointing your thumb to the left or the right will give you context information
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about landmarks that are around you pointing at the screen will have that
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information read out to you and swiping your hand will well you guessed it swipe
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it away you can even use the built-in Cortana functionality by pressing the
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speech button on the steering wheel and doing something like asking for dinner
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recommendations it will automatically suest some restaurants based on your
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preferences and reserve seats for you if you tell Cortana a time that matches up
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with your already existing dinner plans it will intelligently pick the right
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amount of seats and update that calendar entry accordingly and of course that
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goes along with updating your navigation plans that you can get there on time
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speaking of navigation if you forgot a gift for your dinner date you could
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order one on Amazon now and the open Mobility Cloud would automatically
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optimize your pickup location based on your current location and the path that
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you will be taking for the rest of your drive in doing this it will make sure
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that it is as little out of your way as possible through a system called BMW
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connected on route delivery once you arrive your car will have a good sense
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of where you can park due to the realtime on street parking information
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that it has been Gathering through OMC this whole time and on arrival there
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could even be a little robot valet so you can just get out of your car the
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robot could show your car where to park and then the car would park itself
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that's pretty wild