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Linus tech tips coverage of CES 2014 is brought to you by NCI XCOM your source for great technology selection and service along with Corsair memory and Western Digital hey guys we're the Intel booth checking out the BMW i3 I know we don't review cars review computers but this car is kind of turning into a computer so I thought it would might be ok before you get into the car using your phone you can do many things you can locate it on a map you can send maps to it as a destination you can unlock and lock the doors you can flash the headlights and honk the horn you can check your tire pressure and you can see how much available range you have left amongst other things and that's just before you get into the car once you're in the car your phone seamlessly integrates to everything a BMW has introduced ConnectedDrive which is a way of syncing your phone with your car through a pay pís which is quite wonderful something that I did while I was in the car was actually I set up a Pandora playlist through my phone which was very quick and very easy to do and I was able to set out a tweet which I've deleted now but still which just I put GPS data in the car and it was able to tweet out I am going to and then bleep like where I was going to which is actually pretty interesting because the whole idea with this car is you're not supposed to type anything there's predefined messages and stuffs that you can quickly use there dial system to be able to quickly access the predefined messages and you're not supposed to be distracted while you're driving which honestly is not something that I can complain about you don't install apps on the car one thing that's interesting is if you have older like smart enabled cars they have apps installed on them but they become kind of outdated after a while and might not necessarily matter what's cool about this cars you don't install the apps you install them on your phone which is really easy to manage and then your phone syncs their API is through the cars you can control them with the car but it's all going through your phone this car is smart if you start to go outside of your range or if you've given have given it a destination that is outside of your range it'll automatically react and start trying to give you options so a few things that I can do is give you an option of a charging station that's right beside public transit so you can save your car to charge and take public transit or it'll just show you charging stations along the way and give you optional destinations like mini destinations so you can stop there along your route also if you're worried about that at all there's this two cylinder 650cc repurposed motorcycle engine which you can use as a generator to charge up the car if you're nowhere near a charging station but charging stations are becoming much more common these days the concierge service is wonderful it's about $250 for three years to get 3G access to the car and then that enables a whole bunch of different functionality about maps and all this other kind of stuff because the car will have 3G so it can show you where it is on a map and a bunch of other things and then on top of that there's $150 for three years charge for concierge which breaks down to about $50 per year which is really not that bad for how awesome it is you just press a button on the car and then someone connects to you through phone service through the car and then you can ask them anything so something I did was I asked them for bubble tea so I'm gonna ask them for bubble tea in Las Vegas Brandon let me help you get some bubble tea in Las Vegas I do apologize sure what was the first part of that I was wondering if we could get bubble tea in Las Vegas just a moment I'll pull it up Frank no problem I did pull it up about three miles away from you looks like the closer that sounds great by any chance do you know if they have honeydew bubble tea yeah I can hold their website just alone to do that sounds great and you can push that map to my car yeah it should be available shortly perfect thank you very much well caught one a first name say you got into an accident one really cool thing this car can do is detect what type of accident was so say you flipped or you rolled or you got rear-ended or you rear-ended someone else it can then figure out how many people were in the car and try and figure out how severe the accident was and call emergency services and get them there as soon as possible although this car is quite protected because it is made out of carbon fiber it's still good to know that that security blanket is there again guys I know we don't review cars but this car is practically a computer so I thought I would do it anyways it's incredible how connected this car in once you get into the car you you you realize that it is a experience based on your phone it is experience based on wireless data is experience based on how everything else in the technical community is moving cars are finally getting to that point in my opinion so as always thank you for watching this video if you liked this video want to see other CES 2014 videos which probably won't be about cars be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips and as always thank you to our sponsors NCIX WD and Corsair