Left Turn Assistant: Car drives at a main stress, car wants to turn left. motorcycle driving towards the car frontally, Motorcycle increases visibility through flashlight and honking the horn, Motorcycle passes on, then the car turns left. Intersection Assistant: Car drives at the side street as well as Motorcycle crossing on major road, car driver would versee motorcycle driver, through „flashlight“ and honking the horn the motorcycle driver increases his visibility, car brakes, motorcycle passes him. Local Hazard Warning: Motorcycle drives on a road, doesn´t see loose chippings and begin to lurch a little bit while driving. Car drives over loose chippings; the successive Motorcycle gets the warning and can circumnavigate those carefully. Emergency Vehicle Warning: Driver is driving on a street, ambulance is advancing from behind – driver let him pass accordingly, because he has been warned right in time from his car that an ambulance is nearing. Traffic Light Assistant: Traffic Light with communication unit for the car–to–infrastructure-communication. Car drives towards traffic light, traffic light is red. BMW driver brakes. End of Congestion Signal: 2 cars approach a tail end of traffic jam behind a corner. Car 1 brakes suddenly and simultaneously sends warning about traffic jam to 2nd car. That one is able to brake in time.

Computer animation Left Turn Assistant. Car with a motorcycle driving fowards him frontally, car wants to turn left, MC increases visibility rough flashlight and honking the horn, MC passes on, then the car turns left. Various settings. Display inside the BMW with a warning that a car is driving towards him frontally. Car with a motorcycle driving towards him frontally, car wants to turn left, MC increases visibility through flashlight and honking the horn, MC passes on , then the car turns left. Various settings and unusual angles with HD Mini- Camera. Animation of warnings inside the BMW cockpit showing the left turn assistant. Udo Rietschel, Projects Connected Drive, BMW Group Research and Technology: “One of the main causes of accidents in intersections is that drivers performing a left turning maneuver will overlook oncoming traffic. Therefore we at the BMW Group research and Technology have developed a Left Turn Assistant. The system works by having sensors in the front of the car detecting the position and velocity of incoming traffic and is calculation all the time the collision risk between each and every vehicle and if the collision risk exceed a given threshold the vehicle will perform an autonomies breaking maneuver and stops before the vehicle is entering the lane of the incoming traffic.” Split screen left turn assistant.

Computer animation Intersection Assistant. Car drives at the side street as well as Motorcycle crossing on major road, car driver would oversee motorcycle driver, through „flashlight“ and honking the horn the motorcycle driver increases his visibility, car brakes, motorcycle passes him. Various Settings. Head up display in the BMW with a warning that a car is advancing from the left side. Display inside BMW with a warning that car is coming from the left. Car drives at the side street as well as Motorcycle crossing on major road, car driver would oversee motorcycle driver, through „flaslight“ and honking the horn the motorcycle driver increases his visibility, car brakes, motorcycle passes him. Various settings and unusual angles with HD mini- Camera.Animation of warnings inside BMW cockpit at Intersection Assistant.Udo Rietschel, Projects Connected Drive, BMW Group Research and Technology: “The cross traffic assistant is an advanced driver assistant system which should prevent accidents at intersections. Al the vehicles in the intersection area will exchange information about their position and about their velocity and so the system can calculate the collision risk between each and every vehicle. And if this collision risk exceeds a given threshold the vehicle restop before it enters the intersection area and will prevent the accident that way.” Split screen Intersection Assistant..

Motorcycle drives on road, doesn´t see loose chippings and begins to lurch a little bit while driving. Various Settings. Car drives over loose chippings; the successive Motorcycle gets the warning and can ircumnavigate those carefully. Various Settings. Display inside BMW with a warning about a slippery spot on the road. Various Settings. Motorcycle drives on the road, doesn´t see loose chippings and begins to lurch a little bit. Various Settings and unusual angles with HD mini- Camera. Car drives over loose chippings; the successive MC gets warning and can circumnavigate those carefully. Various Settings and unusual angles with HD Mini-Camera. Split screen Local Hazard Warning.

Driver is driving on a street, ambulance is advancing from behind – driver let him pass accordingly, because he has been warned right in time from his car that an ambulance is nearing. Display inside the BMW shows warning that ambulance is nearing. Driver is driving on a street, ambulance is advancing from behind – driver let him pass accordingly, because he has been warned right in time from his car that an ambulance is nearing. Various settings and unusual angles with the HD Mini-Camera. Siren of fire engine on black screen. Dr. Ilse Kulp, Projects IT Drive, BMW Group Research and Technology: The Emergency Vehicle Warning warns the driver in case of an emergency vehicle is approaching. In this case the emergency vehicle, like in our case the fire engine sends a signal via car-to-car-communication to my car and here in the display an icon is shown which warns the driver that an emergency vehicle is approaching. Split screen Emergency Vehicle Warning.

Traffic Light with communication unit for the car–to–infrastructure- communication, various settings. Car drives towards traffic light, traffic light ist red. BMW driver brakes. Various settings. Car drives towards traffic light, is green. Various settings. Speedometer inside BMW showing traffic light assistant. Various settings. Car drives towards traffic light, is red. BMW driver brakes. Various settings and unusual angles with the HD Mini-Camera. Car drives towards traffic light, traffic light is green. Various Settings and unusual angles with the HD Mini- Camera. Animation: display inside BMW cockpit. Animation: display inside BMW cockpit. Udo Rietschel, Projects Connected Drive, BMW Group Research and Technology: “The Traffic Light Assistant is an advanced driver assistant system which should make the driving more convenient, saver and more efficient. It informs the driver about the optimal speed for a green wave and can prevent a red light violation by warning the driver before he crosses a red light.” Split screen Green Wave Information. Split screen Red Light Warning.

End of traffic jam, cars with warning lights.Two cars approach a tail end of traffic jam behind a corner. Car one brakes suddenly and simultaniously sends warning about traffic jam to the second car. That one is able to brake in time. Various settings. Display inside BMW about tail end of traffic jam warning.Two cars approach a tail end of traffic jam behind a corner. Car one brakes suddenly and simultaniously sends warning about traffic jam to the second car. That one is able to brake in time. Various settings and unusual angles with the HD Mini- Camera. Dr. Ilse Kulp, Projects IT Drive, BMW Group Research and Technology: “This is the end of the Congestion Signal which warns the subsequent traffic of an end of a congestion which is maybe after a curve for example which the subsequent traffic cannot see in time. So the warning reaches the subsequent traffic and the cars can reduce the speed and avoid an accident.” Split screen tail end of traffic jam warning.

BMW ConnectedRide is the motorcycle side of the well known communication program BMW ConnectedDrive. In this project BMW develops rider assistance systems for motorcyclists which improves the motorcycle safety further. With this technology BMW is the worldwide first automobile manufacturer who integrates also motorbikes in the communication between vehicles or between vehicle and infrastructure. The basis of the technology is the positioning of the vehicles in the road traffic. That means the position data and the rider dynamic data are transfer between vehicles or between vehicles and the infrastructure. Imagine an intersection on which a motorcycle rider and a car driver approach on a collision course. In this situation quite often the motorcycle rider is not detected by the car driver because of the small silhouette of the motorcycle. In this situation we calculate collision probability. If it increases our specific level we increase the illumination of the headlight. In the next sequent we modulate the head light and if the collision probability still increases we activate sidewise fitted flashlights on the motorcycle to increase the conspicuity of the motorcycle. In the last sequent, if the collision probability is very high the system activates the horn of the motorcycle. In the context of BMW ConnectedRide the following driver assistance systems can be mentioned: The traffic light assistant who makes the driving more convenient or more save. The intersection assistant which addresses critical situations on intersections or the obstacle warning which provides information about break down vehicles on the road. Quite new is the left turn assistant who improves the safety of an incoming motorcycle when a car turns left. All assistant systems can be tested in motorbikes or in cars.

Car-to-x communication means the communication between cars and between infrastructure and cars. The aim of the technology is to send over safety relevant information for example oil on the road or the end of congestion. The driver gets this information very early and so he can actively avoid any critical driving situation. Looking for the technology it works like at home where you connect your pc to the internet over the Wi-Fi-technology. The advantage of the car-to-X technology is to send traffic relevant information as fast as possible to the driver so that he can actively avoid any critical driving situation. Example is the end of congestion or oil on the road after the next curve. Actually we investigate the car-to-X technology in a national project. The project name is SimTD. All German car manufacturers and the main suppliers are working together in this project to test the technology in real traffic situations. BMW for example has a fleet of cars and also motorcycles. The project end is 2013. The results will than evaluated and the roll out of the technology will then define.