[hans.olbrecht]

Thank you @electric_journey to share with us your visit to Munich.
My lease will end next year april, so I'm also considering the NK iX3.
One of my biggest concern, as you also mentioned, is the silence of the iX.
Will this be also the case in the NK iX3?
I didn't found any reference on the internet.
I would prefer to have a smaller car, but don't want to give up the comfort of the iX which is genius (and certainly not comparable with a model Y).
The car will be at the 'ZOUTE GRAND PRIX CAR WEEK ' from 8 to 12th of Octobre.
Will try to get in.

 

[hans.olbrecht]

I find this highly encouraging, but after my experience being abandoned by BMW w/ software improvements less than 6 months after delivery (a management decision), I've been burned and am adopting a wait-and-see approach. Despite my vocal issues with Tesla, they are the only EV maker that has completed the paradigm shift to a largely software-driven architecture. Everyone else is struggling. Even Rivian and Lucid—who I hold in high esteem—are having trouble.

What BMW also needs to do is give the driver some credit. Stop with these region-specific locks and limitations on features that have no justifiable basis. Like not allowing personalization of the "personal mode", not allowing default startup drive modes (Tesla has no issue making chill/sport mode sticky), not allowing remote close of trunk in the US and Canada, not allowing traffic light recognition in the US, and allowing significant new features to be added only to new model years.

I want the car to set me free, not lock me down. I would respond positively to BMW announcing that it is reducing headcount in its legal department!

I want to see BMW commit to keeping older vehicle software current for as long as possible and make a specific statement that they will continue to evolve existing owners' software by adding features that were not available on the day of purchase. This is one of the aspects of Tesla ownership that is delightful. There was a time when Tesla updates broke things, but most of that is in the rear-view mirror.

I am somewhat concerned with the statement that the car has 4 "supercomputer" chips. Why does it need four? Unless it's for Level 3 driving redundancy, this seems needlessly complex and gives me some pause. I want more transparency wrt what chipset is being used to drive the graphics and infotainment. I'd love to see a name like Nvidia, and not some "custom" SOC that nobody has ever heard of.

The other question I have is whether BMW's ADAS is rolled in-house or if it's based on Mobileye. Rivian and others are moving away from Mobileye and it would be nice for BMW to not be entirely dependent on one company for its driver assistance feature set.

Splitting up into 4 parts, helps to reduce impact if somethings goes wrong. As an example on our iX... When carplay crashes the computer, the car is still driving without any disfunction. Probably because both are just separated computers. The most important will be 'incident' free, with means that whatever happens, The car should always be able to be conducted correctly.