BMW Automatic emergency call system

[RhynoCZ]

From the next year, BMW is going to equip their motorcycles with the automatic ECS, as an optional accessory. BMW and others claim, that this system could save up to 2,500 lives on the road per year.

Side note, from 2018, this kind of emergency call system will be a mandatory part of every single car sold in the EU. Motorcycles won't be affected by this regulation and this system will remain optional. These automated systems, as it's claimed, shorten the time of arrival/response of the emergency services by 40-50%.

How does it work?
The control unit evaluates inputs from all the sensors on the motorcycle. In case of a collision, the system activates the mobile phone unit (with GPS) and contacts the BMW call-center. All the talking is done via microphone and speaker on the right handlebar. If there's no response from the rider, he's unconscious, the operator will evaluate the situation and contact the emergency services.
OR you may activate the system by pressing the SOS button on the right handlebar.

Just dropping the motorcycle at low speed and/or when stationary won't activate the system.

Source (info and pictures, not in English): https://www.motorkari.cz/clanky/moto-novinky/bmw/zachranny-system-na-motorkach-bmw-od-pristiho-roku-34020.html

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[Polarbear]

Oops, sorry, meant to press the kill switch
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[c-m]

How would that work when I'm off road in the Sahara and drop my bike? Would I get an Arabic or Berber speaking operator, asking me what the f i'm going dancing on the Algerian border?

[techathy]

My car came with the full telephony including the concierge service. The people who handle the emergency calls also do the concierge service. So a "sorry I'm cleaning my car" is no problem as long as you only do it once in a blue moon. I imagine that BMW will be using the same call centre.

[BrownTrousers]

Seems like pretty clever and potentially very useful (lifesaving) tech.

If you aren't concerned about adding slightly more weight and electronic complexity to your bike for something which you are virtually never going to use, then it will go down well.
BMW owners should love it.
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[Rogerborg]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[Vracktal]

I definitely won't be pressing this button on all the display bikes next time i'm in a BMW dealership. Nosiree
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[Going]

Then there will be the "Good afternoon sir, is this your motorbike? Do you know how fast you was going? Are I see you have one of those bike SOS systems. Don't worry, we'll just get your GPS locations and speed from them and send you the fines in the post. Have a good day."

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[Rogerborg]

Based on speculation or information?
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[Rogerborg]

[The Shaggy D.A.]

[tiger blue]

[Rogerborg]

[tiger blue]

Cheers! Three weeks to go...

[MCN]

It may well call the emergency services but since the Tories will have the emergency services devastated to pre-1950s village hospital standards by then you won't be any better off.

For the record, I own three BMWs (drive and ride like I own the feckin road) and I don't want this junk on any of my bikes.
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[andyscooter]

so if you drop the bike at a low speed and end up with a barbed wire fence round your throat in a very remote location you are still fucked
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[Rogerborg]

Point of order: which "emergency services"?

I'd rather have them call:

Fire and rescue.
stinkwheel
Ambulance.
Parapseudomedic.
Boy Scouts with a tool for getting stones out of a horse's hoof.
Ghostbusters (1984).
A priest (voodoo).
A priest (catholic).
A halal butcher.
Harold Shipman. Ghostbusters (2016).
Police.

In that specific order.
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[MCN]

[lihp]

Detectives must have decent salary!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/julianhj/15161564868/in/photostream/

Unless your Mrs is the earner. If Mrs, pics needed.
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[The Shaggy D.A.]

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[Rogerborg]