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BMW Expands ConnectedDrive, Allows Access To Entire Internet
Remember BMW's ConnectedDrive—the service that gives your in-car information system access to Google Local Search and pairs it up with the navigation system? BMW is taking it one step further by no longer limiting what you can and cannot access with ConnectedDriv, meaning you will be able to browse all of the porn sites you can handle inside your car. There are a few catches, though. More »
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Which Design Element Represents Today's Optimism, or Lack Thereof?
With Lieberman out trying to wring a straight flush from three of a kind, today's Question of the Day comes from frequent tipster Sean.Tail fins reflected the [1950s] era's optimism about technology, as best represented by jets. What design trope would reflect this era's optimism? The iPhone?Perhaps that would be the iDrive? Or does that represent how technology can make a trip to the supermarket an MIT-grade exercise. What say you?
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Let's Interface: Mini to Get BMW's iDrive
Gabe and his MINIons over at Motoring File are convinced the next Mini Cooper will be fitted with BMW's iDrive interface, which has been the victim of more negative column inches than "Ishtar," "Waterworld" and Lindsay Lohan's dad combined. Interface geeks that we are, Jalopnik's complaints about iDrive have been directed not at the complexity of it, but the manner in which it sucks a driver's eyeballs from the road (a bad move on the New Jersey Turnpike). According to MF, the Mini system will mitigate distraction issues with voice activation. Nonetheless, the Mini's climate control switches will remain on the center stack, which removes one major iDrive sticking point. More »
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