yogibear458

I had a close call this morning ? I was on the highway doing about 70-80km/h and was about to change to the left lane, I turned my head to check blind-spot and when I looked straight ahead, the traffic in front stopped. I braked hard, not enough distance to stop, made a hard left, just one really fast turn of the wheel, probably close to 170 degree turn of the steering wheel.

I thought I would hit the car in front but the incredibly quick steering response from the car saved the day!!! I just felt the front right wheel dug in, front of the car pointed to the left, cleared the car in front, straightened out, and there?s no rolling side to side, no loss of balance or at least I didn?t feel the car was recovering its balance.

So I don?t know if it was active steering doing its magic to increase the rate of turn or what? but I guess it was everything working together as they were designed to handle an emergency maneuver. Brilliant stuff.

I should sign up with that BMW advanced driving thing again to get some more practice

Canada545

Good to see that you and your car are OK ...

Did your double double from Tim's spill

Marzzz

I had a similar, though not quite as dramatic, experience. Driving in the right lane at 40 mph, car pulls out in front of me from cross street to the right, instinctive quick snap of the wheel left, my 545 is suddenly in the left the left lane, no roll, no dip, no nothing (and no collision!). I never even had time to get scared.....I have been sold on AS since day one!

saurabh

Active steering is probably my best tech. feature in the car

yogibear458

No double double this morning.

I don't trust the cup holder with my Tim's or drinks If I have a cup/can/bottle of drink, I usually put it in cup holder of the backseat foldhold arm rest.

drjochen

Guest

Aside from making the e60 much easier to maneuver, AS is just another aspect of BMW's focus on automotive safety. The best way to avoid injury and property damage is to have the tools and innovations to avoid a collision in the first instance. I'm glad to hear that AS helped you to avoid such a collision.

jochet

I love a story with a happy ending, glad your ok. This is truely an amazing automobile besides making me a better driver than I am, I also avoided a very bad crash with a similar manoeuver, I was amazed how these cars can make a high speed, split second not to be believed manoeuver without effort. What a great car.

redhat_man

Hi guys,

Yea! certainly I can always vouch for Active steering. Drive the e60 for a whole day and take on any of mercs new e-class machines with their own version of the assisted steering technology, and men!!! I was impressed with the bmw active steering.... this makes driving my old 2002 e39 feel like a truck.

The car becomes reponsive in steering handling and once more really agile for very quick responses, it's like it thinks for you or predicts what exactly you'd like to achieve and bingo... its as smooth as turning that wheel.

The beauty of it if that, when your driving at higher speeds, the steering becomes really stiff like in traditional assisted steering systems and keeps the car rigid and firm, you would ordinarily think that at high speeds the car might feel too light because of the active steering, but narrhhhh.... this stuff is stunning... and am pretty glad the BMW is one of the first to debut this tech on autos... am hoping for more thoughtfull inginuity in forthcoming releases.

Kudos to the BMW Group for this one. It surely is not just safety but a new level of driving pleasure. Try parking in a city with this stuff and you'd be amazed how easy and quick you achieve this always and ever altering test.

Redhat.