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Monitoring vital signs, detecting risks early, saving lives.
A BMW 750e xDrive plug-in hybrid glides quietly through the city, its sensors monitoring the driver’s heart rate, breathing frequency and other vital signs. For now, this is still part of a study, but the vision of a future that merges medicine and mobility is becoming increasingly clear.
This is about rethinking preventive medicine, adapting health technologies for everyday use and transforming cars into active health companions. It’s the focus of a unique research partnership between the BMW Group and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, underway since late 2024.
“The BMW Group and Charité share a common goal: advancing research at the highest level,”
says Dr Jörg Preißinger, Team Lead UX Technologies at the BMW Group.
“In Automotive Health, we are leveraging our combined expertise to achieve key breakthroughs in predictive medicine and early warning systems. Our goal is clear: we want to detect health risks and changes in the driver as quickly as possible – to enable proactive measures that prevent any further deterioration and ensure rapid responses in emergencies. BMW vehicles already provide a strong technical foundation for this, with precise sensors, intelligent actuators, and high-performance computing architectures that can process complex data in real time.”
AI in the cockpit: Emergency prevention through data.
The foundation of this collaboration is a joint letter of intent. Since spring 2025 the partnership has taken shape with the launch of a large-scale study exploring how cutting-edge vehicle sensors powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can assess and evaluate a driver’s health status – creating a direct link between medicine and mobility.
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- Can we please NOT have the worst from Tesla! The central display screen and lack of button and controls is awful.I used to drive BMW for about 20 years, had a Tesla for 2. So I have some experience of both.
Neue classe: Exterior design 👍🏼
More spacious interior, more glass and better visibility, higher seating position 👍🏼
Like the cleaner interior look. 👍🏼
Need a proper logical clean driver display and/or a very good head up display. I will not buy a car without it, period. Need easily operated logical controls on the steering wheel, on stalks and proper physical buttons that can be operated without taking the eyes of the road. A voice assistant is a great complement but does not replace physical controls for everything you need while driving. If I’m on a phone call or in a discussion with my passenger I don’t want to use the voice assistant for everything.
And please make sure everything works before releasing the car!
Just some thoughts from someone who has been driving for 40 years, spend 50 000km/year in the car and also fly airplanes.
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