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Does he call the steering wheel buttons “shy tech”.. shyte eh??

Designed to keep your eyes on the road……..

Yeah, I don’t think it’s working.

Dave!

I’ve watched a couple of carwow reviews recently and noticed a few dashboards have purple flickering IR diodes. I assume this is some sort of driver monitoring thing?

RIP idrive

integrale_evo wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:29 am I’ve watched a couple of carwow reviews recently and noticed a few dashboards have purple flickering IR diodes. I assume this is some sort of driver monitoring thing?

Yes, mine has it but they aren’t as noticeable with the eye, even at night

integrale_evo wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 11:29 am I’ve watched a couple of carwow reviews recently and noticed a few dashboards have purple flickering IR diodes. I assume this is some sort of driver monitoring thing?

It’s the thing that screams at you if you have autopilot on and dare to look away from the road for a split second to glance at the nav screen.

HUD, I like.

Panoramic iDrive, maybe.

Lack of physical buttons, no. Hard no.

Surely the HUD removes the entire need for the panoramic idrive. At least that’s where I thought the tech would go about 20 years ago. Surely you want everything for the driver to be concentrated directly in their line of sight rather than spread across a 2 metre strip.

Exactly. The HUD on my 15 year old BMW shows me the stuff I actually need: current speed, local speed limit, next nav direction. More that than is honestly not necessary on a day to day basis.

Slightly more detail on the nav would be nice but - the RR would change the entire dash cluster to a 3D map and it was way too much. TMI.

According to Topgear, the panoramic is not a screen, it’s all HUD.. if so, BMW should’ve been clearer!

https://www.topgear.com/car-news/tech/e ... ent-system

The marketing department can insist on whatever language they want (and Top Gear, as ever, will uncritically repeat it because otherwise they might not be invited to a product launch), but that's very obviously and clearly a screen, with some HUD functionality.

Looking closely it could be that they've just painted the bottom of the windscreen black and are reflecting a LCD screen off it however this is still stupid because the whole point of a HUD is that it's in the drivers line of sight and the focal distance is such that it's similar to where you're eyes are already looking down the road. Another failure of it is that it's now blocking 6 inches of the bottom of the windscreen so if you're sitting in a low coupe and want your seat in a low position that's your line of sight ruined.

This pic shows quite clearly the difference between the HUD, and whatever this black strip across the bottom of the windscreen is.

Another defining aspect of HUD - as far as I'm concerned - is that in addition to focal distance it's transparent. This isn't.




Remember the first gen Yaris with the semi-holographic dash that seemed like it was much further away than it really was ? May as well claim that's a HUD too.

Reminds me of that stupid thing Peugeot did a few years ago by raising the instruments above the steering wheel claiming it gave drivers a better view of the road somehow

Sundayjumper wrote: Sun Jan 12, 2025 6:00 pm HUD, I like.

Panoramic iDrive, maybe.

Lack of physical buttons, no. Hard no.

Based on where it is, could it be entirely gesture controlled...?