Both visually and technically, the Vision BMW ConnectedDrive points out that a possible mass production vehicle is all the same far down the road. The latest concept comes to Geneva to showcase some of BMW's newest engineering science advancements and to requite you an idea of what currently goes on behind closed in Munich.

To tell the story of the Vision ConnectedDrive, BMW has integrated three fictitious stories in the printing release to illustrate the benefits of interaction between driver, vehicle and environment. The functions are described through uses cases experienced during their research project.

Comfort Scenario – the vehicle is your own personal concierge.

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In the outset BMW Vision ConnectedDrive scenario, you are solitary in the automobile. Subsequently you lot get in, your smartphone automatically connects to the vehicle, the vehicle-specific apps are activated and tin can exist accessed from the chief vehicle menu on the freely programmable instrument cluster. The vehicle then immediately synchronises with your calendar and learns that you have a lunch appointment with a colleague in town very shortly. It passes the address of the eatery to the navigation system and searches for a s suitable route in order to get in at the date on fourth dimension. Upwardly-to-the-minute traffic information is a component of the road calculation, likewise equally preset preferences, which for case might get you at that place specially speedily or especially efficiently. In addition, parking options are considered likewise as alternative methods of getting in that location by public transport.

On the way to the eating place, y'all receive a text message from your colleague. The Head-Upward Display makes you lot aware of the inflow of new text bulletin, you can read the bulletin itself on the instrument cluster, or just have it read out loud to you via the text-to-speech feature. Your colleague writes that he is already at your agreed meeting point but that the restaurant is much too crowded. He asks you to suggest an alternative. You and then actuate the BMW Assist Information Service. Your personal operator in the BMW ConnectedDrive Call Heart looks for an equivalent option nearby and, in one case you lot accept agreed to his or her proffer, he or she makes a reservation for you. This Concierge Service too transmits the new address data to your navigation organization, you ostend the new destination in your navigation system and the guidance system swings into activity. Later, y'all activate the vehicle's text bulletin characteristic and using spoken language-to-text, dictate a message to your colleague with the address of the new restaurant.

The culling eatery is located on the 25th flooring of a high-rise building that has its own parking garage. When you arrive, the vehicle indicates the nearest gratis parking spot and directs you to information technology using augmented reality on the Head-Up Display. Before yous leave the car and your smart telephone disconnects, the vehicle transmits a MicroMap to your mobile, detailing the terminal few meters through the edifice to the restaurant. Your mobile and then takes over the guidance role. Later on you accept got out of the car, the car drives itself automatically into the parking spot.

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Infotainment Scenario: The world of Infotainment in the vehicle.

In the second BMW Vision ConnectedDrive scenario, you experience what BMW ConnectedDrive volition be delivering in terms of Infotainment in the future. At the starting time of this scenario, you are the passenger. While driving through a city where y'all accept never been before, you activate the Emotional Browser via the affect sensitive expanse on the instrument panel. The Passenger Information Display in the instrument panel comes to life. Yous immediately receive information, formatted very much like magazine articles, on points of
interest such as cafés, museums or sights of interest in the vicinity. The Emotional Browser gives you the power to easily filter the information to encounter your requirements, to organise it and change the layout of the display.

You are driving past a café renowned for its proficient music. The Emotional Browser shows that a playlist of selected titles played in the café is bachelor every bit an audio stream. You view the titles and decide that you would like to mind to the music. You send the playlist to the driver with a wave of your hand. It is displayed on the instrument cluster while you are waiting at the next ruby light. The commuter also likes the playlist and confirms that he likewise would similar to listen to the music by using the multifunctional steering wheel or the iDrive Controller. Streaming commences and the music plays. Simultaneously, the cover of the playlist appears in the menu bar nether Entertainment/Multimedia and is displayed while the music is playing.

With good music playing in the groundwork, you determine to find out a petty more than well-nigh the buildings around y'all and actuate the "compages" filter. The Browser now exclusively shows you relevant data on the architectural highlights, both near and far. While you are being provided with detailed data on your brandish, the Head-Upwardly Display discreetly points out features of architectural interest on the buildings that you are passing to the commuter.

I building interests you in particular then you retrieve detailed information about it. It is a museum that is currently hosting an exhibition that appeals to you lot. A gesture is all it takes to pass more detailed data on the exhibition to the commuter's instrument cluster and to suggest that the museum go the new destination. The driver can either briefly accept a closer expect or take the address straightaway every bit the new destination for the navigation system. Once the new destination has been confirmed, the vehicle informs the driver of the distance to the building, journeying duration and makes suggestions on alternative routing. You purchase tickets to the exhibition online during the journey. As presently as the destination comes into view, the driver is provided with a highlighted augmented reality view of it, helping you to rapidly consummate the last phase of your journey.

Location-based information and intelligent filter functionality.

The BMW Vision ConnectedDrive Infotainment scene is based primarily on location-based information. Only information on the surroundings falling inside a certain, predefined radius is shown. The filter features allow the information available to exist filtered by content and to be displayed equally a specific selection and even personalised. These filter settings tin can be made in the condolement of your own home or tin can be carried out spontaneously in the vehicle. Individually tailored information is thus obtained from raw data. The filters work
semantically, ordering information not just by keyword merely also by the meanings associated with that keyword. In addition to the "compages" filter, filters such as "leisure activities" or "events" display movie theatre schedules, concerts and exhibitions adjacent to 1 some other – co-ordinate to preferences that have been gear up or learned. The predefined filters are not static. They can be adapted to suit private preferences or can exist prepare from scratch. Location-based services enable the information available to be used to create a digital
bout of the city or to book a ticket, complete with the appropriate entry in the digital calendar.

Safe Scenario: Looking ahead, staying safe.

In the terminal scenario we find ourselves back in town. Together with your passenger, you are driving along busy streets. The navigation system is activated. Via the iii-dimensional Head-Upward Brandish, you lot accept all the
information relevant to the journey such equally speed, fuel consumption and navigational details directly in your field of view. Thanks to the augmented reality feature, the navigational details appear to be on the street itself and show you the fashion forward. In addition, the freely programmable musical instrument cluster displays a two-dimensional map of your surroundings, with your road highlighted upon it. Your rider is watching a pic on the Passenger Data Display in front end of him. All the while, the sensory system constantly scans the space around the vehicle and along the chosen route.

Circumspection! Several sets of traffic lights on your road take just failed. The vehicle immediately projects a alert directly into your field of view on the Head-Upwardly Brandish. Simultaneously, the instrument cluster provides you with a map of the affected surface area, showing in detail precisely which traffic lights along your road
are out of operation. The alarm also stops the film playing on the passenger'south brandish and so that nothing will distract you from the hazard ahead. In all the situations in which BMW ConnectedDrive issues a warning, the
fundamental principle is that warnings have priority over any other information. This gives you the all-time possible opportunity to grasp the situation, evaluate it and react appropriately. After the initial urgent alert, the warning icon moves off to the side, reminding you to pay greater attending than usual while
continuing your journey. The film resumes where it stopped.

Making the invisible visible – sensors that can see around corners.

Only earlier the road junction with the showtime fix of failed traffic lights, a new warning appears: danger of collision! Even before the route junction comes into view, your vehicle has exchanged data with other road users on the route ahead and has recognised a potentially unsafe state of affairs. A car is budgeted the route junction from the left at full speed even though information technology does not have correct of way. If both vehicles maintain their present courses and speeds, a standoff is likely. Your vehicle immediately makes yous aware of the
probable collision on the Head-Upwardly Brandish and highlights the approaching car on a map on the musical instrument cluster. Again, the film on the rider'south display is stopped. As soon as the other automobile comes into view, it volition be highlighted by an augmented reality outline. This gives you lot the opportunity to brake in time, let the other vehicle pass and to avert a possible accident.

Further along the route, suddenly a vehicle unexpectedly emerges from a parking spot on your correct. The sensory system immediately registers this and shows the emerging vehicle as a gamble in the Head-Up Brandish. The brakes are automatically practical, reducing your speed, and the modest jolt prompts you to deal with the situation yourself and to either keep braking or to take evasive action. Since the peripheral browse has shown that avoiding action volition not be unsafe, the vehicle simultaneously makes an avoidance suggestion
on both displays in the form of an arrow positioned over the lanes in the road. Displaying the options available in augmented reality allows the commuter to quickly grasp the state of affairs and so that he can react intuitively, promptly and appropriately.