BMW I INSIDE FUTURE CONCEPT 2017





























BMW I INSIDE FUTURE CONCEPT

How do we wish to travel around in future? What do we expect of a car interior? In what way do we want to experience a journey? Alone yet together, connected yet independent, safe yet cosy. BMW i Inside Future addresses these issues and puts forward ideas for debate.

Today, intelligent connectivity is already increasing the options available for customers to manage their personal mobility agenda and use digital services inside their vehicle. Drivers and passengers are already accustomed to remaining permanently connected with their digital life while out on the road. This expectation leads, among other things, to greater demands on the vehicle's display and control system. Interior design will be increasingly influenced by the desire to control a growing number of functions easily, safely and intuitively. The wealth of functions on offer is remarkable even now, ranging in current BMW models from state-of-the-art driver assistance systems and in-car entertainment programmes to the array of communications facilities that turn the car into a mobile office. And with the advances in autonomous driving anticipated for the future, the list is certain to grow longer still.

At CES 2017, BMW unveiled its BMW i Inside Future sculpture, which caters precisely to the individual requirements of a vehicle's driver and passengers in all sorts of ways, while still providing sufficient space to experience a journey together. The interior is conceived as a room with separate zones allowing the passengers to spend the journey as they please, fulfilling to-do lists and wish lists alike.

The various ideas for the vehicle interior of the future include a pioneering way of controlling functions: BMW HoloActive Touch takes the gesture control functionality that is already available today in the BMW 7 Series and BMW 5 Series to a whole new level. The innovative interface between driver and vehicle comprises a free-floating display next to the steering wheel that can be operated directly with the finger, and an ultrasonic source that provides tactile feedback for the driver's inputs - all without actual contact being made with a user interface.

The interior's transformation into a living space

The BMW i Inside Future sculpture exhibited at CES 2017 offers a look ahead to the future of interior design. BMW's vision makes allowance for the fact that a vehicle's interior is set to turn more and more into a living space for comfortfocused, permanently connected users. The interior of the future will function as a place of retreat, an office or a recreational space for entertainment, as required. Intelligent connectivity is expanding the spectrum of digital services available inside a vehicle, while automated driving is reducing the driver's workload and providing the extra freedom needed to take advantage of these services in their car.

BMW is leading the way in the development of these key drivers for the future of mobility. Today's BMW models are already available with numerous systems rooted in forward-looking technologies that are also ideally prepared for further advances - in terms of both automated driving and intelligent connectivity and control systems. Driver assistance systems provide an ever-increasing degree of effective support, not just with controlling speed, regulating the distance to other vehicles and keeping in lane, but also with avoiding collisions by monitoring traffic moving along the same road or crossing it. BMW Connected provides customers with a personal mobility assistant that seamlessly interlinks use of the vehicle with their digital life. This involves using both the vehicle itself and personal devices - such as smartphones, smartwatches, tablets or the Amazon Echo with built-in voice assistant - as digital touchpoints for the flexible Open Mobility Cloud platform. A display and control system ensemble offering unrivalled functionality and diversity ensures intuitive, highly convenient control of these and other services from the vehicle; conventional buttons, the iDrive system, the touchscreen function for the Control Display, BMW gesture control and voice control combine to create an operating toolkit that both encompasses a vast number of different functions and makes allowance for individual preferences.

With BMW i Inside Future, BMW is demonstrating how these technologies can be taken a few steps further and supplemented by further innovations to create the vision of an interior that has been purpose-designed for fully automated driving and intelligent connectivity. The study emulates the state-of-the-art, luxuriously appointed ambience of a premium car, in which top material and build quality are traditionally combined with unobtrusive technology that is there whenever it is needed.


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