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Interesting, thanks daveshan.
Maybe the Nav system is looking for updates from the USB C socket when the car starts, which disconnects the media source temporarily??? I dunno. I guess I'll have to make peace with having my shiny bling iPod Nano on display.
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Park Assist Plus can be used to manoeuvre out if spaces as well as in!!
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I haven't built up the courage yet to test letting the car park / unpark for me :-(
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I have tried the reverse park into a parking bay, very nervous with my foot hovering over the break lol but works well. Other cars that have this you have to control the acceleration but BMW does it all.
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03-22-2020, 09:47 AM | #73 |
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I learned that Drive Assist Pro also accepts a kneecap touching the wheel as acknowledgement you're paying attention while the car is driving. This is useful if you want to free up both hands for device usage, etc.
I use DAP mostly on long drives, where my back and legs appreciate it if I am able to vary their position occasionally, for example putting both feet flat on the floor away from the pedals, and reclining my back a bit. |
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You can ask your BMW by speech commands how high the oil temperature is and it will give you the exact number. So you don't need to open the sports gauges before giving it the beans.
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03-22-2020, 02:56 PM | #77 |
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I'm not talking about two-handed texting in city traffic, I'm talking about flipping through radio stations while on long interstate drives with only one car ahead, and a self-driving feature that I paid $1700 for and that BMW designed for this very purpose maintaining the correct distance (which can by the way react to braking and swerving situations faster than a human can) and alerting me when there's something I need to know about. I'm not sure those without this feature realize how far along it is.
And, I'm here on a forum where people are talking about using launch control red light to red light. So please, no moral-police safety discussions around this topic, it's just way too hypocritical. I do not even drive fast or aggressively like probably 80% of BMW drivers do. I just expect better depth of thought than this from this forum. No, I'm not one to drive around the city (which is not as conducive to self-driving features) paying attention to the phone and not the road. There are two situations where self-driving makes sense.. the scenario above, and traffic jams. Also, I wasn't talking about literally fiddling with my phone when I said device usage. My phone is usually in the tray charging. You guys realize that utilizing the touch screen, or even interacting with "Hey BMW" via voice counts as device usage? If you are doing that while driving and not using drive assist pro, you're taking way more risks than I am. Last edited by TheRetroGuy; 03-22-2020 at 03:11 PM.. Reason: ... |
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Anyway, I'm surprise you can use anything but your hands to defeat any of Auto Assistance because BMW's unit uses body heat for a tactile feedback. I figure one's knees wouldn't make the cut : I tried to see if I could remove the restrictions with Esys but they are unfortunately hard-coded to the software, so it cannot be altered via coding, other than some regional variation tweaks. So substituting a limb as a bypass, is as good as is going to get, until someone perfects a fake silicone hand. One day, this could be me: |
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I suppose it's possible there is a "limb defeat" technique there somewhere, like maybe someone with leprechaun-sized legs could somehow wedge their leg up under the wheel just right, but my knees sit too high for that to be possible. |
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Just realised I can select the drive mode and accept the Welcome OK BEFORE starting the ignition. Unlike the F30
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Just realized that the park assist self parking feature is something I probably won't use much. Aside from parallel parking (which I haven't tried yet) it's a useful feature in some (but limited) situations.. for example you're in a seriously crowded parking area, cars are packed in too tight, and there are no "wide open" spaces in sight.
This is because the feature uses the distance between the two cars it is wedging itself in between to find the middle point, not the actual parking space lines. So, if people have been parking less than perfectly (never happens right?), it is going to back you into a "temporarily optimal" position based on the cars next to you. Temporary because if the car next to you leaves the spot, the next car in may decide to park based on car distance or might go for the lines (or just be a moron and park diagonally), and you might be backing your car into a door-dent hazard. I'm guessing it works best in places where parking lines are ill-defined, cars park too close to each other, yet drivers are generally considerate of not bumping the doors of other cars. Or there could be a case made for just saying it will take the hassle out of backing into a space for you, then you can pull up a little bit and adjust to taste. I end up doing this fairly often anyway anyway (adjust to taste even though I pull in front-first) based on the overhead view. So, I've recently realized that I love the 3D surround view and Remote 3D view feature of the phone app (being a tech geek that I am), but of most value to me in most situations is the overhead view showing the parking lines, because they help me get perfect "between the lines" (not between the cars) distance every time. If I'm not mistaken this overhead view comes on every car with park distance control? In that regard I'm not sure I would opt for park assist if I were ordering my car again, as I'm not sure I will use it often enough. Again GREAT for impressing friends, watching the car park itself is cool so there's value there -- and again potentially much more value if you parallel park often. *** Update: I would absolutely order this option again, if for no other reason to get the top-down parking camera view. I did not realize this was only available as part of 3-D surround view at the time I wrote this post *** Last edited by TheRetroGuy; 04-03-2020 at 07:34 AM.. Reason: Learned I wouldn't have the top down view if I had not ordered this feature!! |
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Just noticed the voice activation (Hey BMW) does not work when you are in reverse gear
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The left hand side compartment near your left knee under the steering wheel just happens to shaped perfectly to fit a 9mm.
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