Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] Beerless Geeks[was(nowmembersmeetingquestion) on members list]

[Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 31 May 2003, Jennifer Dozar wrote:

> The French are similar with wine. And BMW does make a fine automobile
> except for the WinCE programmed car :)  Did you hear about that? WinCE
> crashed and locked this Thai (i think it was in thailand or something)
> politician in his car for like 4 hours or so. If you want the link i can
> probably go back and find it :)

I think that was a current generation 5 series, not the new one that's
due out in July, not the current 7, which does have WinCE based telematics
(do a search for BMW iDrive).  I don't think it was WinCE that crashed,
but just the car's central computer.

For the curious, here's a list of nifty settings that can be programmed
in by your dealer:
http://www.bmwnation.com/tech/tech_3carkeycfg_01.html

--dlloyd
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