CES: BMW ConnectedDrive ActiveAssist Autonomous Driving Prototypes
Leave it to BMW to showcase performance autonomous driving prototypes at the 2014 International CES. Automated driving has become more prevalent in the automotive industry, but BMW is positioning itself one step ahead of the game with its ConnectedDrive ActiveAssist system that twists the dial on a robotic driver’s personality from chauffeur to racing driver. According to BMW, the system “brings the vehicle back into line in demanding driving situations without any input from the driver.”
BMW is using the 6 Series Gran Coupe and the 2 Series to showcase the next level of autonomous driving at CES. They say the ActiveAssist system can run the slalom at high speed with tremendous precision, and is quite apt at performing emergency lane changes.
As you can see in the first gallery below, the system is quite comfortable in its autonomous drifting capabilities, which underscores its nature of demonstrating “maximum safety up to the car’s dynamic limit” … yes, that does sound like a system that thinks like a racing driver.
The second gallery is a collection of shots we snapped at the BMW tent at the 2014 International CES. Enjoy.
Via WorldCarFans || Gallery #2 photography by Ray Reyes
Press Release
BMW at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas 2014.
BMW has earned an undisputed status as one of the world’s leading carmakers with developments – grouped under the BMW ConnectedDrive banner – focusing on every aspect of the link-up between the driver, vehicle and outside world. The company is underlining its position in the vanguard of technology at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2014 in Las Vegas. The company will use the headline US fair – which spotlights advances from across the world of digitization and connectivity – to present innovative previews of future developments and new applications for series-produced vehicles.
Highly automated driving at the limit.
The BMW Group has created a new kind of research prototype for highly automated driving which uses advanced control technology to demonstrate maximum safety up to the car’s dynamic limit. In addition, the prototype vehicle will highlight the effectiveness of a new generation of control systems on the closed-off track. These systems actively intervene in the direction-changing decision-making process and ensure the electronically controlled steering works in perfect harmony with the brakes and accelerator. As such they go a crucial step further than current systems, which react to the onset of understeer or oversteer with carefully calculated braking inputs.
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