welcome to something a little bit
different here on linus tech tips we had
a unique opportunity to travel all the
way to germany to test drive the all-new
bmw one series so
i guess that's pretty much all there is
to say other than
come along for the ride this is the
all-new one series from bmw a line of
sporty economical hatchbacks that might
surprise you considering how much
performance and tech they've managed to
cram into a car of this class compared
to previous models the appearance of the
new lineup has been significantly
improved they've added an all-new front
bumper design with bigger intakes
slimmer led headlights and classic bmw
l-shaped led tail lights that weren't
present on previous 1 series vehicles
it's available in a variety of engine
sizes ranging from 109 horsepower 3
cylinder all the way up to a 326
horsepower turbocharged inline-six
rocket ship with manual and automatic
gearboxes available powering either rear
wheel drive or bmw's all-wheel x drive
now our car is equipped with an x-drive
120 diesel boasting the m sport package
which features this sharp looking
estoril blue color a sporty front clip
17-inch rims and an exclusive side trim
but
of course if i spent this whole video
blathering on about rims cornering
acceleration and braking you'd probably
think you clicked on the wrong channel
and besides i'm comparing this to my
heavily neglected 2003 lambo anyway so
why don't i do us all a favor and leave
the car reviews to the car guys which
oh was that too soon and hop on over to
some of the top tech features of our
loaded up one series
oh
holy cow this thing has a lot of buttons
on it look at this you can set like
eight different radio stations i can do
like six in mind i don't think that's
the technology we're supposed to be
focused on but
first up for me was the nav system now
obviously i'm in friggin germany so i
relied pretty heavily on this bad boy
the pre-loaded maps feature real-time
traffic on this like sick 3d view or a
more traditional view if you prefer that
and some other sweet add-ons including
different route mapping for best fuel
economy least amount of time or shortest
route real-time speed limit updates
using a front-facing camera in the
windshield to tell you hey there's a
construction zone or hey there's adverse
weather conditions and this one is cool
background monitoring of topographical
information that allows adaptive
downshifting of the automatic
transmission when approaching an uphill
and it can also work with the cruise
control system to decrease speed when it
notices you're about to approach a
corner with all that said all the smart
navigation features in the world won't
completely stop you from being an idiot
behind the wheel
sorry
but we can laugh about all of that and
show off some more features now because
i clearly survived now to be clear most
of the features we're showing off are
powered by bmw's optional connected
drive which uses a built-in 3g or lte
sim card that sits in a crash protected
enclosure in the rear of the vehicle
with the purchase of this feature you
get text messages sos calls and an
unlimited data plan with no roaming from
one european country to another and you
can use that data plan for other cool
stuff as well like wikilocal a button
you press to see cool stuff to do nearby
or getting real-time stock updates in
the dash of your car if you're into that
sort of thing to expand bmw online's
functionality you can plug in a
compatible phone in the armrest either
with an adapter or a usb cable run the
bmw connection assistant this stuff just
like voice calls through your car
speakers does use your own phone so your
own mobile plan but also has some
interesting third-party apps internet
radio was one that let me feel a little
more at home even though i was on the
other side of the world and audible can
actually be integrated into your dash
and lets you listen to your favorite
audio books without fumbling around on
your phone while driving
but if you're not that into audio books
how about this one there's a gopro app
that's sick nick where's the gopro we
should totally set it up i didn't bring
it
all right okay
so
this
is a totally contrived opportunity for
us to use the concierge service now
luke actually tried this back at ces two
years ago and said it was pretty
impressive he basically said they have
to pretty much do whatever you ask and
they can't hang up on you so luke like
kept the guy on the phone forever we're
not gonna do that but we're just going
to place a call and we're going to get
someone
to tell us where to buy a gopro in
munich
so let's see how this goes
welcome to bmw connected drive speaker
with linus larson how may am i helping
wow your name's linus
yes it is that is the coolest thing ever
my name's linus i don't meet many
ah well
then i happen to miss another line
that is fantastic don't worry i have an
actual reason for calling you um i'm in
i'm in munich right now which i guess
you probably know
and i need to buy a gopro camera so i
need like a general electronics store
and i was hoping that you could help me
find one and turn my navigation system
on to help me get there
okay let's see here
i would guess they have them at
media mark
are they open right now
let's see here's one
and it actually seems to be open oh
awesome well it's actually not that far
from your current position either it's
uh well air distance is uh
4.6 kilometers great sending it to your
car as we speak as a destination so just
let me know when it shows up
uh yep it looks like that has shown up
for me so uh i guess i just press okay
yes
it's either okay or start guidance
yeah i'll go with start guidance since
there is no okay on the screen
yeah
all right sir is there something else i
can help you with at the moment no i
think that's it thank you very much
linus
same to you lioness and if anything else
just call us back all right thank you
very much
his name's linus
all right we got it so i guess now the
uh
the next step is to get this mounted on
the car and go find uh go find somewhere
interesting to drive
i don't have my keys how am i gonna open
this package
breaking all the things
i see that as if this is something new
for me
oh look at that it's open already okay
hold on
starting preview
sweet it's upside down while i'm holding
it upside down so
nice
so let's go preview our position for it
the preview goes away when you're going
to drive but
recording look at that
bippity boppity
magic cinderella nonsense all
right back to actual driving technology
the adaptive cruise control or whatever
bmw calls it is one thing that blew my
socks off there's basically a radar box
in the front of the car that allows you
to set a speed up to 210 kilometers per
hour then just forget about it you'll
automatically slow down and even stop if
the car in front of you decelerates and
then stays stopped for less than two
seconds
i want to put my foot back down but i
don't need to apparently
and last but not least the all-new one
series parks itself
not just parallely but even into a stall
using an array of sensors on the bumpers
we've got the mode on and we're just
kind of cruising along in the parking
lot and of course oh hey i was going to
say of course the time you go to demo it
doesn't work but
it did
reverse slowly and break manually
uh-huh
okay
this is kind of tripping me out right
now
you can see
okay the sensors are like yeah i don't
like that but you i mean you're the one
doing this so
uh-huh yeah drop oh drive forward slowly
uh-huh
secure vehicle against rolling away you
got it buddy
so i guess that's pretty much it i want
to thank the people of germany for being
so hospitable and i want to thank you
guys as well for watching the video
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