Milestones

2017

As of March 2017

"Driving assistant+" in the BMW 7 Series and the new 5 Series pave the way for highly-automated driving. With Connected Drive, BMW already has more than 8.5 million connected cars on the road.

BMW Connected app users have reached 100,000 with net promoter scored to 65 percent.

February 2017

BMW Group and Mobileye agreed to introduce Road Experience Management data generation technology in newly developed BMW Group models in 2018 to crowd source real-time data.

January 2017

BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye announced plans to roll out a fleet of about 40 autonomous BMW vehicles on the roads by the second half of 2017.

BMW 5 Series prototype demonstrates personalized, connected driving experience in a highly-automated vehicle at CES in Las Vegas.

2016

By the end of 2016

BMW achieved more than 14,000 kilometers of HAD demonstration in China, both in enclosed environments and on public roads.

September 2016

BMW Group and partners teamed up in the 5G Automotive Association to develop, test and promote communication solutions for connected mobility.

July 2016

BMW Group, Intel and Mobileye joined forces to bring solutions for highly and fully-automated driving into series production by 2021.

June 2016

BMW became the first premium auto brand in China to showcase the feature of Automatic Lane Change via a base model of BMW 3 Series GT.

Without the intervention of a driver and within a speed range of 0-120km/h, BMW's HAD demo car performed a series of complicated tasks, on the 35-kilometer-long highway in Chengdu.

2015

BMW, together with other partners, concluded the acquisition of Here, a leading provider of digital maps and location based service.

(China Daily 04/19/2017 page3)