The development of the BMW i5 is nearing its end.
BMW has announced that car is now but a few weeks ahead of its world premiere as it reaches the final fine-tuning of its suspension control and driver assistance systems.
The BMW i5 will debut the ninth generation of BMW's Vertical Dynamics Management system BMW has also revealed, most interestingly, that the car will get an updated Highway Assistant feature. This technology will control the distance of the car from the vehicle ahead and carry out steering adjustments, just as we are familiar in many vehicles. However, the technology is also apparently going to allow you to make lane changes by means of eye activation.
This can be done by looking in the exterior mirror, which will then prompt the car to initiate the lane change with the necessary steering movements, once the driver has confirmed they want it to do so and the traffic situation allows. Use of the turn signal lever can also activate this process, and this lane change process can be executed at speeds of up to 130km/h.
Also new for the i5 is BMW's ninth generation Vertical Dynamics Management, which now gets an extensively networked control logic, and will now factor in all the available input variables - such as wheel speeds, steering angle, yaw rate and acceleration - to establish the ideal damping force.
The BMW i5 has gone through a testing process that has seen it driving through the snow-covered and icy surfaces of the winter test centre at Arjeplog, Sweden, as well as various situations of extreme heat and dryness, to test the heat management capability of the high-voltage battery which will allow rapid and efficient charging of the car at fast-charging stations.
BMW has announced that car is now but a few weeks ahead of its world premiere as it reaches the final fine-tuning of its suspension control and driver assistance systems.
This can be done by looking in the exterior mirror, which will then prompt the car to initiate the lane change with the necessary steering movements, once the driver has confirmed they want it to do so and the traffic situation allows. Use of the turn signal lever can also activate this process, and this lane change process can be executed at speeds of up to 130km/h.
Also new for the i5 is BMW's ninth generation Vertical Dynamics Management, which now gets an extensively networked control logic, and will now factor in all the available input variables - such as wheel speeds, steering angle, yaw rate and acceleration - to establish the ideal damping force.
The BMW i5 has gone through a testing process that has seen it driving through the snow-covered and icy surfaces of the winter test centre at Arjeplog, Sweden, as well as various situations of extreme heat and dryness, to test the heat management capability of the high-voltage battery which will allow rapid and efficient charging of the car at fast-charging stations.
