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Forget About Park Assist, This Is The Future In Automated Driving!
Forget everything you know about self park and automated assist while driving.

They just got placed in the eternal archive with other novelties like curb feelers and CB radios.  

Watch this Top Gear episode featuring the future here and present with a self driving BMW 3-Series around the track at speeds of over 100mph!


 

Leave it to those crafty Germans to not only bring advanced technology to the forefront, but make it something that will blow your mind as well.

Thanks to 528i for the tipoff!

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Forget About Park Assist, This Is The Future In Automated Driving!



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r15mohdr15mohd - 12/18/2007 9:54:09 AM
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^^^exactly.

the Ultimate Driving Machine is now, the ultimate recliner on wheels!



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KingerKinger - 12/18/2007 9:56:51 AM
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I'd personally always prefer to drive myself as I enjoy driving just for the sake of driving. BMW are a highly innovative company however and this is a great showcase of their technology and what their tech division is capable of.

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beeteebeetee - 12/18/2007 10:39:28 AM
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Technology, innovation and the "yeah we can do it" factor. In a more practical sense, this makes the "executive limo" role of the 7 or 5 series quite solid. Whilst handling business with my crackberry, papers, laptop, etc, the car can drive. Then when I'm done, I can grab my ultimate driving machine, take control and then have fun.

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M35MTM35MT - 12/18/2007 11:16:22 AMView My AgentSpace
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009, This makes you a hypocrite for criticizing the Lexus self park feature and claiming that its for those who 'cant drive'. Well, that was parking. This is driving the car at high speeds...who cant drive now?

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silver1silver1 - 12/18/2007 1:34:04 PM
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silver1silver1 - 12/18/2007 1:37:32 PM
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It seems like this is nothing innovative...
Lexus Parks it self before anyone parks.
This car on the other hand, records your driving course, and repeat everything you did. How easy is that?
It's not like Lexus to where it chooses it owns coordinates, like a analytical thinking machine....This car is just a record player....

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Agent009Agent009 - 12/18/2007 2:02:19 PMView My AgentSpace
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M35MT-

"009, This makes you a hypocrite for criticizing the Lexus self park feature and claiming that its for those who 'cant drive'."

LOL - you caught that huh? Now it is pretty neat BUT it has to make in production before I can pick on it.

There is a big difference between going 100mph on a closed at the limits all of the way, and taking 5 mins to park a car when a competent driver can do it in under one.

But right now I am not sure how BMW plans to use the technology in the real world.

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Agent009Agent009 - 12/18/2007 2:15:53 PMView My AgentSpace
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Actually Vendetta- I have been all over this for about two years now. So if you missed that part then you my friend you are behind. But BMW has matured their portion of the equation go beyond barely preforming a task. So that is why it counts.

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Agent009Agent009 - 12/18/2007 2:19:12 PMView My AgentSpace
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silver1- You might want to check the history books. Self park has been around in one form or another since 2003.

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2ndbimmer2ndbimmer - 12/18/2007 10:02:34 AM
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The point is, it does show that they can innovate anything. They had park assist available on their 2002 5 series wagons by the way. It was nothing new when that one company thought it was cool to bring here.

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Agent009Agent009 - 12/18/2007 10:34:00 AMView My AgentSpace
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Correct, but when another company touts the same technology as "ground breaking" and markets the heck out of it. Only then do the fan boys take notice.

I guess that shows how you can get locked into your own world and not realize that what is new, is really what is old, sometimes.



M35MTM35MT - 12/18/2007 11:18:17 AMView My AgentSpace
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Did you let go of the BMW's steering wheel and it parked itself the same way the LS does? Can you provide evidence of this? Beeping warning sounds dont count.


w209w114w209w114 - 12/18/2007 11:27:24 AMView My AgentSpace
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That car seems to drive better than Jeremy himself.

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Agent009Agent009 - 12/18/2007 11:31:17 AMView My AgentSpace
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Probably knows it limits better than Jeremy. It think it would have been better if he sat in the passenger seat.


w209w114w209w114 - 12/18/2007 4:28:52 PMView My AgentSpace
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Agent 009 lol, Great Idea!


rg12345rg12345 - 12/18/2007 8:11:36 PM
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search for VW Gold drives itself .. on Autospies.com!

If you would pay attention to your own website (I am talking to the AGENTS) you will see VW has a car that completely drives itself. This bimmer is just following the path it memorized before, it's a pretty easy thing to do. Just follow the accurate GPS step by step and do not accelerate more than the system can handle (all sensors already are in place, like in any regular/other car-esp, abs, etc..).

The VW Golf I am talking about it's actually scanning the environment and building the road in it's head/computer.

Difference: drop a cone in the middle of the track for the bimmer, it will HIT it. same thing for the VW it will avoid it at FULL speed.

This is so lame ..


golfer38golfer38 - 12/18/2007 11:28:04 AMView My AgentSpace
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This would be a great ride at an amusement park, but definitely not something I'd be into for the street, although some drivers out there could certainly use this and make the streets a better place for the rest of us..

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EL34EL34 - 12/18/2007 11:45:55 AM
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Yeah that's all cool and stuff, but does it self-park?

After all, the Lexus LS460 can park itself in und3r 5 minutes ;)

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henbmwhenbmw - 12/18/2007 12:18:14 PM
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You realize how long 5 minutes is when parking a car?


Agent009Agent009 - 12/18/2007 1:34:56 PMView My AgentSpace
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Enough to get you shot at in some parts of the country.


JUGNUJUGNU - 12/18/2007 11:58:18 AMView My AgentSpace
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but now this won't be seen as pointless and and all that. Word pointless is only used here (in autospies), when Lexus come up with a new technology.

but i am definately going to congratulte BMW if that tuns out to be true. Great engineering (but i think won't be production ready by anytime soon).

JUGNU

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1995e341995e34 - 12/18/2007 12:05:25 PM
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it's not pointless when lexus comes up with a new technology. it's fiction.


1995e341995e34 - 12/18/2007 12:03:24 PM
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it was only a matter of time. this could eliminate drunk driving fatalities. i'd love to be able to have too many Newcastles and hop behind the wheel...SAFELY!!!

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henbmwhenbmw - 12/18/2007 12:19:20 PM
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Agreed!


bintintinbintintin - 12/18/2007 12:37:14 PM
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Didn't VW show similar technology a year or so ago? I remember a Golf being able to drive itself around a track, and it figured out the obstacles. I could be wrong.

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Agent009Agent009 - 12/18/2007 2:20:26 PMView My AgentSpace
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Yes but not at those speeds.


1evlaudi1evlaudi - 12/18/2007 12:42:04 PMView My AgentSpace
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LMAO!!!!

yes, VW has been doing this for a while now.
In a Discovery channel TV show called 2057, the world in 50 years, the segment on automobiles showed Audi/VW cars diving by themselves.

This is far from being news, every manufacturer has been working on that stuff at least since the 70's.

It's okay you can all resume your normal activities.

LOL



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bintintinbintintin - 12/18/2007 1:24:58 PM
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Ouch!


TheSailorTheSailor - 12/18/2007 12:48:42 PMView My AgentSpace
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No way I'm going to let a computer do the driving for me... I'll do my driving myself thank you... One thing is self parking that is just useless, but self driving that is downright dangerous. Because even though there might be a manual override, people driving on auto will tend to relax and do everything but care about what is going on... And if a child suddenly jumps out in front of you and the car makes the wrong decision, you won't be able to react before it is WAY too late because you are too busy reading your newspaper!

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1evlaudi1evlaudi - 12/18/2007 12:49:08 PMView My AgentSpace
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1evlaudi1evlaudi - 12/18/2007 12:59:48 PMView My AgentSpace
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A Gnome Exhibits No Talent

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KillBotKillBot - 12/18/2007 1:56:22 PM
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I Love to DRIVE, but since I live in LA, with LA traffic I have to get out of the county to find good roads to have fun on. So, the idea of a car that can take care of the CHORE of city driving I gladly welcome any day of the week.

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528i528i - 12/18/2007 2:50:34 PMView My AgentSpace
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Thanks to me for posting this article two days ago.

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S4cabriofoxoneS4cabriofoxone - 12/18/2007 4:42:34 PMView My AgentSpace
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As long as you can turn it off, it's interesting. I agree with KillBot in that it's very useful in stop-and-go traffic... but then again, adaptive cruise may make even more sense for that. I love driving, though, and would definitely NOT buy a car that only drives itself.

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SevorbeupstryIsBackSevorbeupstryIsBack - 12/18/2007 4:45:22 PM
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This is purely to made for BMW Fahrer training.

It's brilliant

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SevorbeupstryIsBackSevorbeupstryIsBack - 12/18/2007 4:46:01 PM
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in fact, bmw had this car back in end 2005

before lexus self-park or vw gti self-drive


c36amgc36amg - 12/21/2007 4:40:44 AMView My AgentSpace
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well this technology doesnt seem to be very useful... all luxury cars are meant to be enjoyed on the wheel rather than trusting a computer to do it.

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