CES 2016: BMW turns cars into spy cams
BMW Bumper Detect system catches car park vandals in the actEver come back to your car to find it scraped, scratched or vandalised, without so much as a note under the windscreen wiper?
BMW is set to turn the tables on unscrupulous car park culprits by turning cars into spy cameras.
The Bumper Detect system, displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas overnight, will even send images of car-damaging culprits to a smartphone, complete with the time of the incident.
The car uses its existing parking sensors and other, newer sensors to figure out if anybody has bumped into it, then it can start taking pictures or video of the car and the area around it, and will send them to the owner’s smartphone on request.
Vision from the cameras on the car can even be streamed to approved devices in real-time, BMW says.
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