BMW i3, movies while you drive.

Screen Quality is excellent.

This is for demonstration purposes obviously, only an idiot would drive while looking at movies.

n97 mini

You've obviously not driven i80 from Salt Lake City to Reno!

Haha, no I haven't , I guess you're telling me that it would be a lot easier to watch movies on such a straight road while driving ?

Looks like twice the width of our motorways ?

Soarer

The hippies wouldn't like those wind turbines!
And yet they'd love EVs run on sustainable electricity!

Decisions, decisions!

n97 mini

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Haha, no I haven't , I guess you're telling me that it would be a lot easier to watch movies on such a straight road while driving ?

Looks like twice the width of our motorways ?

I-80 "straightness" was featured on Top Gear (it passes the Bonneville Salt Flats, where they were headed for). There are various long stretches of it that are dead straight, the longest is about 90km. Both directions are physically totally separate too, so it's virtually impossible to have a head on collision on it.

As an aside there's a Tesla-owning Youtuber who complained about the range of his Model S being well eroded by the I-80's 80mph speed limit. So it's not just the Leaf!

unkel

n97 mini wrote: »

a Tesla-owning Youtuber who complained about the range of his Model S being well eroded by the I-80's 80mph speed limit. So it's not just the Leaf!

Of course it isn't!

EVs have very little energy on board compared with ICE. Now in city start stop traffic, they get away with it as EVs are very efficient and gain back quite a bit of energy through regen braking

But increase your speed and the energy needed to propel the vehicle increases exponentially. In a not very well streamlined Leaf, the range drops to completely unacceptable levels like 70-80 km at 130km/h. Tesla was very well aware of this and made their cars streamlined

Model S had the lowest coefficient of drag when it came out, and now Model 3 has the best coefficient

Back on topic: My '96 BMW had an LCD screen. It would show just the menu once the car started moving, but I hacked it and used to watch RTE 6.1 news on my way home from work sitting in traffic

How's the IONIQ's screen quality? LKAs and adaptive cruise control ftw for that perfect 6.1 experience on the run. The i3 cinema seems pretty damn good anyway.

jhegarty

Did you enable the "playing while driving" on the video player ?

I hacked it to allow it to work when driving. :rolleyes: naughty naughty .

Remember for educational purposes only ......



Mad_Lad does not condone nor recommend watching movies while driving nor hacking the BMW i3's head unit. Safety comes first.

jhegarty

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I hacked it to allow it to work when driving. :rolleyes: naughty naughty .

Remember for educational purposes only ......



Mad_Lad does not condone nor recommend watching movies while driving nor hacking the BMW i3's head unit. Safety comes first.

That's an absolutely stupid dangerous thing to do.

How did you do it ? (asking for a friend )

stesaurus

jhegarty wrote: »

That's an absolutely stupid dangerous thing to do.

How did you do it ? (asking for a friend )

BMW coding is fairly easy, plenty of guides online

http://www.bimmercodeapp.com/
Couldn’t be easier !

cros13

*cough*

I'm just going to leave this link here....

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tb3zoPwRxkJ5bpZBwfnUKsOnue39MF4kCA6KsBs8hCo/edit?usp=sharing

Have to say I think one of the best thing I did was to disable the Seatbelt Gong, the i3 gongs are annoying so that got rid of one serious one. I don't want a car to tell me the freaking seat belt is off, if it's off it's off because I want it off, for instance, I've to open the gate then drive xx meters into the yard, I do not want to have to put back on my seat belt.

Next irritating feature is that the car shuts off when you get out of the car, WTF were you thinking BMW ? I get out to open the gate and the fecking car shuts off sit back in and have to start it again grrrrrrr !

Other than this I love the car !