I checked my eyes and met the right BMW i5

Mondo Cars Updated on 2024-02-01

Last week, the all-new BMW 5 Series and the innovative all-electric BMW i5 were launched in tandem with two axles. In a previous article, we shared with you about the exterior, interior, and power of the new car. As a benchmark for driving pleasure in the fuel era, BMW's driving experience in the electric era is what we care about the most. Because driving pleasure is never the result of piling up data on hardware, and BMW has always been good at surprising drivers beyond the data.

The innovative all-electric BMW i5 features the fifth-generation BMW eDrive electric drive system. Compared with the permanent magnet synchronous motor, this i5 shows still superior acceleration performance in the full speed range, especially in the middle and high speed sections on the highway. At the start, the powertrain reacts within 100 milliseconds, followed by linear power.

The Sport Boost function can also be activated at any time by flicking the paddle on the left side of the steering wheel, giving the car an additional 30 Nm of torque output instantaneously. The 10-second power boost brought by the "one-key afterburner mode" is like the nitrogen acceleration obtained by drifting in a racing game, but the fun is on call on the i5, and it is even more fun and practical in the scene of completing the slow car overtaking on the city road.

Compared with the excellent powertrain, the integration and tuning of the system determines a more delicate driving quality. The 9th-generation lateral dynamics management system is called "the strongest brain" by BMW. Through the sensors to monitor the various dynamic parameters of the vehicle, the next dynamic analysis of the vehicle**, and then coordinate the functions of the chassis, so that the functions of the chassis can be calmly coped.

The 9th generation lateral dynamics management system makes the vehicle in the overall control feeling of neutral steering in corners, avoiding the occurrence of over-steering and over-steering to the greatest extent, thereby ensuring the stability and handling of the vehicle, allowing the driver to control the vehicle more accurately and control the driving pleasure, while presenting the BMW i5 as an executive sedan elegant and stable attitude. Obviously, BMW's profound experience and skills in the era of fuel vehicles, as well as its grasp of driving pleasure and texture, have been well retained in this innovative pure electric BMW i5.

With the L2+ intelligent driver assistance system turned on, the all-new BMW 5 Series shows its "easy-to-use, easy-to-use, and daring" intelligent man-machine co-driving side. It is not a big saga without awe of driving, nor too much unnecessary interference, the intelligent driving system is always silently "watching the six roads and listening to the eight directions", but the right time is chosen to appear, and the driver works together to complete the intelligent driving experience of moisturizing things silently.

For example, after the automatic driving assistance system PRO is activated, the vehicle enters a high-speed cruising state, such as a slow car in front, when the traffic conditions meet the conditions for lane change, the vehicle will actively give lane change overtaking suggestions according to the speed of the vehicle in front and road conditions, and the automatic lane change function with line of sight confirmation will observe the driver's feedback through the tracking of the driver's eyes and head movements, as the next action command.

At this time, the driver only needs to change lanes as usual, slightly turn his head and glance at the exterior rearview mirror to confirm the lane change, and the whole lane change process is silky and smooth. This step of "eye confirmation" is BMW's insistence on "driving in the ring", which ensures the driver's participation in the current L2 stage from a safety perspective, and I have gained a more dimensional experience of driving pleasure through this step of "confirmation interaction".

The engineer of intelligent driving said that the automatic lane change function with line of sight confirmation alone has nearly 9,000 lines of logic behind it, and this number means complex excitation conditions in the real driving process. We generally summarize it as "in the range of 60 km/h to 180 km/h in high-speed and closed road environments", but in real roads, the system needs to consider much more conditions than imagined before activation, which is also BMW's insistence on the "safety first" philosophy. While driving, attention monitoring systems based on driver models and infrared cameras and a new capacitive-sensing steering wheel also ensure that the driver is always "in the loop", ensuring safety and making intelligent driving easier.

For a good driving experience, I have always wished that the development of the times will bring more convenient enjoyment of driving, rather than taking away the original fun. The all-new BMW 5 Series and the innovative all-electric BMW i5 make this a reality.

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