BMW adaptive navigation system helps save fuel

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There are already numerous navigation systems available now that can download traffic data and compare it against route information programmed by the driver. But what if you know where you’re going and don’t program the nav? That’s what BMW is working to address with a new experimental system. BMW engineers have built artificial intelligence into the system that tracks where each driver of the car goes and builds up a history profile. It then uses this learned history and the car’s current track to predict where the driver might be going. Real time traffic data can then be compared to the prediction so that the driver can be warned of congestion, and alternate routes can be suggested to save fuel. Going beyond that, the system can potentially proactively modify the control strategies of the powertrain to reduce fuel use based on what the system expects to encounter. BMW has managed to improve the predictive accuracy from the initial 30 percent all the way to 70 percent in the current systems. BMW hasn’t given any indications of when this technology might make it into production vehicles. [Source: BMW] Continue reading BMW adaptive navigation system helps save fuel Auto Blog: Emerging Technologies , MPG , BMW BMW adaptive navigation system helps save fuel originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:54:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds .Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green