Bjorn also confirms that the i4 embargo lifts on the 13th. Gotta kill two more weeks I guess 🤷♂️
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I will feed in a discussion started in another thread!
All that subsystems are very useful, and believe me I am very tech savvy and I like them all .
My issue is that I don't thing that, most of them, had mature enough.
These are rather new technologies and we all are Beta-testers! (maybe even Alpha)
For example in the 1st video @9:25 we learn about a system that sound an alarm when you reach a Stop sign too quickly.
Well... here some Stop signs in Greece.
How you like them apples?
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And I don't expect that even in better situations than the tragic ones I posted the system will be useful.
Also you hear a <beep><beep> HOW do you know which one of all the alarms is it?
Maybe your smartphone is 100% charged.
In the 2nd [email protected]:50 The car has to be locked to see the inside ...remotely?
Oh, OK! I will alert the thieves to close the doors before they steal anything from inside the car.
Also waiiiit to cooooontact BMW seeeeervers.
So the tech is there but not very useful. Not mature enough.
And of course you pay extra for all these gimmicks not to mention that the servers, when they wake up, will store all these snapshots to the end of times.
All that subsystems are very useful, and believe me I am very tech savvy and I like them all .
My issue is that I don't thing that, most of them, had mature enough.
These are rather new technologies and we all are Beta-testers! (maybe even Alpha)
For example in the 1st video @9:25 we learn about a system that sound an alarm when you reach a Stop sign too quickly.
Well... here some Stop signs in Greece.
How you like them apples?
And I don't expect that even in better situations than the tragic ones I posted the system will be useful.
Also you hear a <beep><beep> HOW do you know which one of all the alarms is it?
Maybe your smartphone is 100% charged.
In the 2nd [email protected]:50 The car has to be locked to see the inside ...remotely?
Oh, OK! I will alert the thieves to close the doors before they steal anything from inside the car.
Also waiiiit to cooooontact BMW seeeeervers.
So the tech is there but not very useful. Not mature enough.
And of course you pay extra for all these gimmicks not to mention that the servers, when they wake up, will store all these snapshots to the end of times.
Honestly it was a little bit difficult to find these photos, which I'm guessing are also very old.Greece actually has some of the best (also because are new) roads in Europe.
My point wasn't to ...bash Greece, which I obviously love, but to point out "simple" situations that the A.I. of modern cars can't handle.
An A.I. can tell you that this animal is a dog, but it may have serious problem if the dog is partially hidden behind an object. Something that even a 2 y.o. can understand.
The point is how much reliable are these systems and how much annoying.
In another thread we talked about BMW's assisted view (which seems inferior of that of Tesla) if it is useful and if you can depend on it OR it would just steal seconds from your attention.
Navigation is extremely useful and it has been 20 years since I first used Route 66 in a Symbian phone with a bluetooth GPS! I really love navigation systems, even without a destination, just driving around, exploring new places.
A system that says to me that "I came too fast" to a Stop sign I think is pointless. Not to mention what I wrote. That with all these systems you hear a beeping sound and you might not know what it is!
Great review, gives confidence in BMW EV ! I liked the spontaneous speech about primal instinct/private zone @48:00
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