The BMW I3 is a endearing lump of automobile , the variety of vehicle you would save up for years to corrupt , and then polish with a diaper . Hold on there , sir . Do you really want to drive this chef-d’oeuvre of engineering with a Samsung Gear S smartwatch ?
At CES BMW is illustrating how the time to come of driverless cable car might be powered by the company ’s proprietary swarm . To do it , a BMW barked commands at a a smartwatch , telling it to fall out of the garage and pick him up outdoors . After a light postponement — Wi - Fi in the Las Vegas Convention Center is a cataclysm — the smartwatch processed the statement , and the car swag forward . No driver . It just moved .
The toe - headed German BMW rep jumped out in front of the moving fomite , like a man with a death indirect request .
And to my surprisal , our German acquaintance did not die . The elevator car discontinue short of clipping his legs .
The car stopped because of the supersonic sensors in the front of the fomite . In fact , all of the technology being used in this demonstration already exists , the only affair that needed to be make for CES was the voice and smartwatch desegregation . Of course , you ’re not likely to see a railway car that pick you up outside your house any time soon because of the law and lawsuits . But hey , maybe one daylight you ’ll be able to take a railroad car with the smartwatch on your wrist — hell maybe one solar day smartwatches will actually be good enough to wear . Pshhhhhh . Let ’s not get forwards of ourselves .
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