Ultimate Assisted-Driving Machine: BMW unveils gesture-recognizing, self ... - ExtremeTech
The 2016 BMW 7 Series uber-premium sedan takes technology beyond the cutting edge. There are more than a dozen ways to help the driver if he or she wants help. iDrive gets a touchscreen LCD and the ability recognize finger gestures, if not the rude gestures made by BMW 2002 partisans crying over progress. Life at the top can be short, especially since Audi, Lexus, Jaguar, Mercedes-Benz, and Porsche all have access to much the same third-party driver-assist technology. When it ships this fall, the BMW 7 Series becomes a checklist for what is possible at the high-end of the automotive spectrum. As with the the first iDrive BMW in 2001, there is so much new technology to present, so much Kool-Aid to drink, that BMW splits the announcement into a global unveiling of the car and its specifications this week, hands-on test drives later in... Here’s a tour of the new 7 Series as BMW unveiled it at BMW Welt, the customer center and showplace near its headquarters. Jaw-dropping driver assistance in 2 parts BMW is taking driver assistance and automation another half-step, making it possible for a driver to let the car drive on interstates so long as he or she still has a hand lightly on the wheel. Source: www.extremetech.com
