Self-driving cars are the new electric cars, in the sense that all automakers seem to be at each other’s throats over who can get the technology out first. When electric and hybrid cars first started…
Hildegard Wortmann is now the Senior Vice President of the BMW Brand, after working for the company for 18 years. Wortmann started at BMW in 1998 and has been with the Bavarian automaker ever since,…
At the moment, BMW’s autonomous driver aids are just that — driver aids. The current level of autonomous tech is Level 2, which is basically just various forms of driver assist functions and not actual…
BMW and Mobileye today announced that they have signed an agreement introducing Mobileye’s Road Experience Management data generation technology in newly developed BMW Group models entering the market in 2018. This agreement to crowd-source real-time…
At the 2017 Detroit Auto Show, BMW board member Ian Robertson tackled head-on some of the most pressing issues in the cylinder building in Munich. First point on the agenda was President-elect Donald Trump and…
At this year’s CES, BMW showed off quite a few new technologies, including some freaky visions of the future of cabin technology. But one of the biggest debuts for the Bavarians was the autonomous 5…
We’ve recently just seen some pretty incredible technology from BMW at this year’s 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Everything from smart windows to virtual touchscreens that provide haptic feedback with magic (BMW claims ultrasonic pulses)….
BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye today announced that a fleet of approximately 40 autonomous BMW vehicles will be on the roads by the second half of 2017, demonstrating the significant advancements made by the three…
The BMW iNEXT is scheduled for release in 2021 – self-driving, electric and fully connected. A whole range of highly-automated models from all BMW Group brands are set to follow. To achieve this aim, the…
The automotive industry is currently witnessing a paradigm shift towards autonomous driving. We are not only seeing carmakers, but technological giants like Apple and Google enter the race to come up with the first mass-volume,…
