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Written by Ollie Marriage
BMW"s cutting edge i brand arrived in a blaze of glory with the futuristic i3 and i8 back in 2014. But that was five years ago and so far nothing has come along to update them aside from concepts, including the Vision iNext, iX3 concept and i Vision Dynamics. So what"s next? How will BMW make sure the i brand maintains momentum? Robert Irlinger, Senior Vice President of BMW i, is the man with the answers. TG: It"s been quiet from BMW i recently. We"ve seen concepts, but when will you have something more tangible for us? RI: The one you"re looking for is the iNext in 2021. It won"t be the next level of electrification, but the really huge step will be autonomous driving up to level three [where the driver can be hands-free for extended periods of time]. There will be a totally new approach for the interior of course, and if you looked at the Vision car there will be really new approaches in how to interact with the car: multi-modal interaction, speech capture, gesture, things like that.
Date written: 18 Mar 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15175
BMW"s cutting edge i brand arrived in a blaze of glory with the futuristic i3 and i8 back in 2014. But that was five years ago and so far nothing has come along to update them aside from concepts, including the Vision iNext, iX3 concept and i Vision Dynamics. So what"s next? How will BMW make sure the i brand maintains momentum? Robert Irlinger, Senior Vice President of BMW i, is the man with the answers. TG: It"s been quiet from BMW i recently. We"ve seen concepts, but when will you have something more tangible for us? RI: The one you"re looking for is the iNext in 2021. It won"t be the next level of electrification, but the really huge step will be autonomous driving up to level three [where the driver can be hands-free for extended periods of time]. There will be a totally new approach for the interior of course, and if you looked at the Vision car there will be really new approaches in how to interact with the car: multi-modal interaction, speech capture, gesture, things like that.
Date written: 18 Mar 2019
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 15175