BMW’s Alexa Integration “Gets It Right”

IK6SPEED · 07-30-2018, 12:56 AM

BMW will in a few days start rolling out to many of its drivers support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. The fact that BWM is doing this doesn’t come as a surprise, given that it has long talked about its plans to bring Alexa — and potentially other personal assistants like Cortana and the Google Assistant — to its cars. Ahead of its official launch in Germany, Austria, the U.S. and U.K. (with other countries following at a later date), I went to Munich to take a look at what using Alexa in a BMW is all about.

As Dieter May, BMW’s senior VP for digital products told me earlier this year, the company has long held that in-car digital assistants have to be more than just an “Echo Dot in a cup holder,” meaning that they have to be deeply integrated into the experience and the rest of the technology in the car. And that’s exactly what BMW has done here — and it has done it really well.

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The Wind Breezes · 07-30-2018, 01:01 AM

More 1984. We can't get enough can we?

allinon72 · 07-30-2018, 01:43 PM

Amazon Alexa, but still no Android Auto. In what focus group are people clamoring for Amazon damn Alexa in the car? I won't even allow one of those in my home.

Needbmwpartzz · 07-31-2018, 06:02 PM

fu@k Alexa!

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IK6SPEED Banned 4510 Rep 10,473 Posts Drives: BMW M3 / AH3 Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Cali iTrader: (23)	BMW’s Alexa Integration “Gets It Right” BMW will in a few days start rolling out to many of its drivers support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. The fact that BWM is doing this doesn’t come as a surprise, given that it has long talked about its plans to bring Alexa — and potentially other personal assistants like Cortana and the Google Assistant — to its cars. Ahead of its official launch in Germany, Austria, the U.S. and U.K. (with other countries following at a later date), I went to Munich to take a look at what using Alexa in a BMW is all about. As Dieter May, BMW’s senior VP for digital products told me earlier this year, the company has long held that in-car digital assistants have to be more than just an “Echo Dot in a cup holder,” meaning that they have to be deeply integrated into the experience and the rest of the technology in the car. And that’s exactly what BMW has done here — and it has done it really well. Continued... https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/29/bm...gets-it-right/
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The Wind Breezes Lieutenant Colonel 919 Rep 1,848 Posts Drives: 135i N55 DCT Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: USA iTrader: (0)	More 1984. We can't get enough can we?
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allinon72 Brigadier General 5065 Rep 3,859 Posts Drives: 20' M2C, 23' X1 Join Date: May 2017 Location: Indianapolis, IN iTrader: (3)	Amazon Alexa, but still no Android Auto. In what focus group are people clamoring for Amazon damn Alexa in the car? I won't even allow one of those in my home.
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Needbmwpartzz Colonel 855 Rep 2,792 Posts Drives: 2009 bmw 328i x-drive Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: Kitchener/Waterloo iTrader: (0)	fu@k Alexa!
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