Playing around with BMW’s 7 Series gesture control user interface

We take a BMW 7 Series for a short drive to play with its gesture control. Video shot/edited by Jennifer Hahn. (video link)

LAS VEGAS—Yesterday, we showed you Dragon Drive, the voice-activation system that's now included in BMW's 7 Series. That's not the only advanced user interface that the Munich-based car maker has included in its technology-laden sedan—it also features gesture control.

BMW's UI designers evidently believe gestures are the future. The i Vision Future Interaction concept we showed you Monday is built around gesture control, as is a remote parking system that BMW is developing for the i3. (Take that, Tesla Model S!) But neither of those are production-ready, unlike the system in the 7 Series.

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