Hey Alexa,<\/p>\n
\uf0b7 \u201cWhat time should I leave for my next trip?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cWhat time should I arrive for the next appointment?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cWhat is my vehicle range?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cHow much gas do I have?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cHow far can I go before I need to refuel?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cDo I need to go to the gas station?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cDo I need to fill the tank?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cWhat is my vehicle\u2019s fuel level?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cWhat is the status of my BMW?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cIs my car locked?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cIs my car unlocked?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cDid I remember to lock my car?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cLock (secure) my BMW.\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cAre my windows open?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cDid I remember to close my windows?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cWhat is my window status?\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cTell BMW to ventilate my BMW.\u201d
\n\uf0b7 \u201cTell BMW to precondition my BMW.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sounds familiar? But in a car…? In a few days, BMW will\u00a0start rolling out support for Amazon\u2019s Alexa<\/a> voice assistant. Commands may not be recognized without first stating \u201cAlexa, ask BMW\u2026.\u201d or \u201cAlexa, tell BMW\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n And it’s not just voice. BMW has been working directly with the Alexa team at Amazon to also integrate visual responses from Alexa. Using the display above the center console of most new BMWs, the service shows additional facts or graphs when warranted.<\/p>\n \u201cBy making this step of integrating Alexa into our models from mid-2018, BMW and MINI will form a more intrinsic part of our customers\u2019 digital lifestyles,\u201d remarked Dieter May, Senior Vice President Digital Services and Business Models at the BMW Group, on BMWblog<\/a>. \u201cVoice control first featured in BMW Group cars many years ago, and we are now enhancing its functionality by adding a digital ecosystem, which will open up all sorts of new possibilities that customers can access quickly, easily and safely from their car.\u201d<\/p>\n BMW does have a warning. Alexa commands regarding fuel level, vehicle range, and window status are only compatible for Model Year 2017 and newer BMW vehicles with Navigation Professional and all BMW i3 and i8 vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hey Alexa, \uf0b7 \u201cWhat time should I leave for my next trip?\u201d \uf0b7 \u201cWhat time should I arrive for the next appointment?\u201d \uf0b7 \u201cWhat is my vehicle range?\u201d \uf0b7 \u201cHow much gas do I have?\u201d \uf0b7 \u201cHow far can I go before I need to refuel?\u201d \uf0b7 \u201cDo I need to go to the gas […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1568,"featured_media":150832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[21217,21219,25202],"location":[24456],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-150771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-alexa","tag-amazon-en","tag-bmw-en","location-germany"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bart Brouwers","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/brewbart\/"},"featured_img":null,"coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Alexa<\/a>","amazon<\/a>","BMW<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Alexa<\/span>","amazon<\/span>","BMW<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 8 years ago","modified":"Updated 8 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on July 31, 2018","modified":"Updated on July 31, 2018"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on July 31, 2018 9:19 am","modified":"Updated on July 31, 2018 9:19 am"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1568"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150771"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=150771"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=150771"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=150771"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=150771"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=150771"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=150771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}