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I'm here at BMWs booth at CES 2019 outside in the parking lot and as you can see obviously we need to be outside because cars and motorcycles so here at BMW they are doing it some demos with the x7 sir as you can see the cars are doing some fancy tricks behind me you get into that and I'm gonna go for a ride in that in just a second but before that the riderless motorcycle now this is pretty insane when you watch this with your own eyes just take a look and see it is writing itself so obviously this isn't gonna be a real product this is something that BMW is going to be using to kind of optimize and get a lot of data about how the motorcycle rides and then feed that back to help develop better safety systems so the motorcycle can do pretty much anything that it would if you were riding it like normal so it can stop and start on its own you'll be able to change gears use the clutch and everything and will take corners really really easily so it's kind of crazy just to watch it do its own thing so this is gonna be in hopefully some safety systems in motorcycles in the near future but for now it's not gonna be a real product just enjoy it driving itself and just have your mind blown by what this looks like you ready Tommy I am ready what are you gonna show us today well we're gonna experience the new all-new BMW x7 obviously in some situations scenarios obstacles here that you probably wouldn't normally take any BMW in this one it can do it this one can do it it's not necessarily built to do it but it can do it that's what makes it so awesome so you can see obviously the initial look of the vehicle is all new redesigned and from anything else they've ever had so in my opinion it's got a great great look to the interior and it's it's pretty easy to use you've pulled up our our X view our inclu meter here showing some different angles and stuff for any experience better ride height to the highest setting we can adjust that now first time in a long time we've had fully adjustable ride height there mm-hmm so what's uh so first up we've got our offset ramps here we're gonna use and the xDrive system itself is gonna be exercised quite a bit in this case because in a minute we will eventually have only two tires touching the ground as we Teeter across so oh yeah when we get to this point you'll feel one of the tires will come off the xDrive system will very smoothly engage the opposite tire this still has grip to keep us moving right along and we're gonna go real slow here and see what kind of balance whoa we are we are on an angle there yep we're flexing out so the other thing that's cool about this right about here you feel it bouncing around on two wheels right on two wheels right there there's a lot of torsion in the body right now so with our unibody structure in these cars it creates a lot of rigidity so even here we can open those back door or the right side doors there and they closed smoothly the hinges line up there's no no flex in the unibody or anything like that which is pretty cool because sometimes an SUV or something like that you might end up with a lot of twists in the body and sometimes the doors don't even align right when you get the suspension torqued up like this so obviously this thing is nice and stiff so we'll slowly come down the other side here that was the other end drive your tires way off the ground there I feel like I need to be holding on I mean I feel very safe but at the same time I know this is not a usual driving situation correct yep so up next we're going to experience some lateral angle because that would mean we were flipping over but we're not going to do that today we're gonna get it way up here close to maybe 20 or a little more Wow lateral angle yeah and so you can see here 21 degrees 22 degrees so what's awesome about this in a vehicle this size the MWR strives to have a great balance and the center of gravity being as low as it as it can be in this thing allows us to do this with really no risk of rollover anything like that I would say we're well within reason you could even go a little higher probably but I don't want to be the driver that finds where the limit is that means we did flip right exactly well I mean so theoretically we could stay at this angle all day we could hang out here for a long time until the blood rushes to one side exactly and then I'm starting to feel sick why do that okay like I said most people never do that to their their BMW but but you can that's the thing it's a great way to experience it now the other thing I like to always point out is BMW does a really good job of creating the ultimate ultimate driving experience in all of their cars they all have a very similar feel this is a big vehicle making this tight corner with some of the stuff stuff they put into their bigger vehicles to make it feel like you're driving a into or something would be like the rear steering assist and this thing is helping us make it around that tiny corner so actually as we're cornering at a low speed the rear axles turning off this direction to keep us going around there so up next we've got the rollers here this is scary so again the intelligent x-drives can have to work overtime as we get onto the rollers they're free spinning so we're gonna have to keep it going and that eventually the opposite corners are gonna grip up and power be transferred across the axle as needed to keep us moving along so all right let's do it I feel like this is a roller coaster for cars here so now we're looking at the sky and one of the features a point out to you here is our start off assistance so all BMWs have this if you're stopped on a hill now obviously normally wouldn't be this extreme you can actually you're given three seconds to take your foot off the brake and go to the throttle to start moving forward without rolling back that's a feature in all the Wow a car so I'm going to take my foot off the brake here go to the gas it didn't allow us to go backwards Roback it was we go forward this is what you need in San Francisco straits because it's s steep we can't see what's down there so I don't know I mean hopefully the ramps are still there all right so I'm going to turn on hill descent control this button right down here so in our f7 here we've got hill descent control that works in a range of two miles per hour all the way to 20 miles per hour so now that I've got it active its gonna go to its base speed of 20 or excuse me 2 miles per hour and when I let off the brake here in a second I'm not going to touch the pedals I'm gonna let it do the work to guide us down this hill on these narrow ramps so it's gonna do it on its own okay I'm trusting it is a trust game feels like wow so I can adjust my speed there through the cruise control dial Wow obviously we'll keep it at the low speed but that's a handy feature if you live anywhere where there like if you're driving in a range that's below 40 miles per hour you can adjust that and it'll kick in very smoothly to guide you to the set speed anything above 40 it'll automatically knock hill descent control back off so that way obviously doesn't break you from a higher rate of speed sorry extreme Tommy that was amazing thank you taking us around nice to meet you sorry that ride was absolutely crazy honestly at times it was a 26 degrees on that incline and it actually felt both really comfortable and really terrifying which is a real testament to that technology so that's all from the BMW briefs make sure to stay tuned to seeing it for lots more coverage