Driving Comfort - BMW 5 SEDAN Series Owner's Manual

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Driving comfort

Vehicle features and
options
This chapter describes all standard, country-spe‐
cific and optional features offered with the series.
It also describes features and functions that are
not necessarily available in your vehicle, e.g., due
to the selected options or country versions. This
also applies to safety-related functions and sys‐
tems. When using these functions and systems,
the applicable laws and regulations must be ob‐
served.
Chassis components
The chassis components are optimized for the
vehicle and its scope of application and thereby
ensure the best possible Driving Dynamics.
Adaptive chassis
Concept
This system reduces undesirable vehicle motion
when using a dynamic driving style or traveling
on uneven road surfaces.
General information
The driving dynamics and driving comfort are en‐
hanced depending on the road surface condition
and driving style.
Tuning
The system offers different shock absorber set‐
tings ranging from comfortable travel to dynamic
driving.
The damping settings are assigned to the differ‐
ent drive modes of the Driving Dynamics Control.
Additional information:
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Adaptive Drive
Concept
Adaptive Drive is an actively controlled chassis.
The system increases driving comfort and mini‐
mizes the lateral tilt when driving around curves.
General information
For active control, this system uses the available
information, for instance from the navigation sys‐
tem or the Driving style analysis.
In particular in the ADAPTIVE drive mode, this in‐
formation is used to influence the adaptive chas‐
sis control and the active roll stabilization control.
This further increases both the agility of the vehi‐
cle as well as the lane stability.
The function may be restricted if the navigation
data is invalid, outdated or not available, for ex‐
ample.
Active roll stabilization
Concept
The system reduces the lateral tilt of the vehicle
that occurs during rapid driving in curves or dur‐
ing quick evasive maneuvers.
General information
The lateral tilt of the vehicle is balanced out by
permanent adjustment on the front and rear
axles. The vehicle is thus always stabilized.
Agility and driving comfort are increased under all
driving conditions.