My First Autonomous Driving Experience! - BMW @ CES 2017

This CES 2017 video documents the experience of Linus Tech Tips exploring BMW’s autonomous driving prototype in a 5 Series connected car, powered by BMW’s Open Mobility Cloud (OMC). The video begins with the car automatically syncing calendars, shopping accounts, entertainment, and daily locations via the OMC to plan navigation and surface the day’s schedule on the dash. Behind the scenes, OMC handles monitoring and management, such as parsing texts to accept meetings and updating navigation with new calendar events. It can display real-time traffic and signals information, including red light durations, by leveraging a city-wide database built from BMW and other OEM connected cars and OMC data. In the back seat, a passenger enjoys a movie through Amazon on the car’s system, and the car can switch to a cinematic mode with ambient lighting and a back window display to reduce glare. The interview showcases Convoy mode, where the car automatically follows a friend’s car, enabling autonomous driving while the user is free to engage with other features. The video highlights gesture controls for contextual landmark information, Cortana integration for restaurant recommendations and calendar updates, and on-route optimization for items like gifts via Amazon, illustrating a tightly integrated ecosystem that aims to keep travel smooth, informed, and synced with personal plans. Overall, the experience emphasizes how autonomous driving, driver assistance, and connected services collaborate to extend decision-making to the car, reduce manual input, and adapt to the user’s daily routine.

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