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      12-15-2010, 06:13 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by BMWDAD View Post
In the future you’ll be offered Apps that deliver micro-navigation (so you can find your way from the car park to the airport check-in desk) and a Mini App that tracks and displays your ability to eek every possible mile out of your fuel tank.

The company is also planning an App that will tell a driver whether his trip is quicker by public transport and then detail the alternative journeys.

BMW is also working on a wide range of accident avoidance tech, including pedestrian avoidance, automatic avoidance of lateral collisions on motorway lanes and a system that can steer the car off a road and park it if the driver has a heart attack at the wheel.

There’s also an interesting new project called AMMULET, which sees children carrying a small transponder that can be detected by future BMWs, even when the child can’t be seen.

Prepare yourself for a new parking system that allows the driver to step out of the car and park it in, say, a narrow parking space, by remote key control. Future BMW keys might also double up as swipe charge cards to pay for railway tickets and open the doors of pre-booked hotel rooms.


God help the human race...... future generations won't even be able to think for themselves at this rate let alone do anything for itself.

I won't be buying any car that's got any of that crap in it
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