BMW 5 - Manual (Page 36)

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11/2009
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Unique combination of driver assistance systems
and mobility services.
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Word debut: BMW Parking Assistant and Surround View.
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Further improvement: Active Cruise Control with Stop & Go
and collision warning with brake application function.
Offering a wide range of driver assistance systems and mobility services
unique the world over either as standard or optional in the context of
BMW ConnectedDrive, the new BMW 5 Series Sedan sets new standards
in its segment in terms of superior, comfortable and safe motoring.
The range comprises a number of features presented for the first time in
the new BMW 7 Series and now being introduced, again for the first time,
in the upper midrange segment.
The various services of BMW ConnectedDrive are supplemented by further
innovations making their world debut in the new BMW 5 Series Sedan,
among them the BMW Parking Assistant, Surround View, a collision warning
with brake activation function in combination with Active Cruise Control
incorporating Stop & Go, and a Speed Limit Device.
BMW ConnectedDrive offers a unique portfolio of features and amenities
in areas such as traffic information, emergency call functions, vehicle, enquiry
and office services, travel and leisure time planning, internet services, and
driver assistance systems. All of these functions focus consistently on
three targets: to enhance personal comfort, to optimise the safety of all the
car’s occupants, and to offer the most modern infotainment standards in
the automobile.
To meet all these requirements, the exchange of information between
the driver, the car itself and the surrounding world is coordinated by
BMW ConnectedDrive in a particularly intelligent, target-oriented manner.
Whether the task is to handle traffic information, write and receive e-mails,
take care of emergency call functions, process websites, offer telephone
enquiry services or driver assistance systems based on camera and sensor
information, the comfort, infotainment and safety systems on board a
6. BMW ConnectedDrive in the
New BMW 5 Series:
Greater Supremacy, Comfort
and Safety through
Intelligent Networking.