![]() ![]() Once you're within a metre-and-a-half, whether you're carrying the car's key or have a digital BMW key on your phone, the car will unlock, and as you open the door there will be an animated greeting played on the big screens. At the same time, the door handles and boot lid handle are illuminated to make it easier for the customer to take hold of them." The vehicle shows the customer the way to the entrance area, which is lit up by a light carpet in the vicinity of the driver's door featuring geometric forms inspired by the elements of the graphical user interface. A soft, subdued light comes on in the cabin. Once it knows you're near, says BMW, iDrive 8: "Starts to wake up and indicates this with a gradually intensifying, dynamic lighting effect using the exterior lights. Apparently, this brings: "emotionality to the relationship between driver and vehicle." Those entrance moments are enabled by a wide-band radio receiver, which can work out precisely where you are, as long as you have the car's key in your pocket. IDrive 8 will use a vast, curving conjoined instrument panel and infotainment screen, and BMW says that it will use "Great Entrance Moments" and a "choreographed routine" to welcome the driver on board each time. ![]() More voice interactionīMW says that iDrive 8 will be able to: "adjust to the driver's individual needs and routines, as well as the situation at hand" and will be: "a central operating channel of human-machine interaction." Apparently, the big idea for iDrive 8 is to move beyond the traditional twist-and-click rotary controller and move more and more into direct speech control, with you being able to chat to your BMW's dashboard and interact with it using natural language, rather than pre-set commands (right - everyone go and click on the Ozzy Osbourne 7 Series YouTube clip NOW to see where this is going.). Now, BMW is launching the eighth generation of iDrive, which is now technically known as BMW Operating System 8, and it will make its debut in the dashboards of the upcoming iX electric SUV, and the i4 electric four-door coupe. BMW was one of the first major car companies to start sticking big, colour screens into its cars (starting with the always-controversial E65 7 Series of 2001) and since then, its iDrive infotainment system has almost always been one of the best in the business. ![]()
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