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Road Safety???
TrickyMicky:
You start to wonder if all these complications are just the designers' way of keeping their jobs!! I'm sure we all know of vehicles where you need the instruction manual just to reset the clock from winter to summer, I have a digital clock in my garage, and there is a button which I press once to advance it one hour, and if I press it again it goes back one hour. What could be simpler? I consider any vehicle that needs the driver to look at and touch a screen whilst driving is not fit for purpose, and should never have been giver a certificate of initial fitness.
taysidedragon:
I like to keep it simple. Too much tech is definitely distracting and ott.
My 400f has all the controls I need, my Triumph has even less, not even a kill switch! Although I have thought of adding one for safety.
My current 'box' is a Skoda SUV and the tech in that is ridiculous! I don't use most of it. Touch screen for this that and the other, voice control which is a P.I.A. It doesn't get it right most of the time, so I have to try again and again. It's easier to do it manually. If I'm talking to a passenger the voice control butts in because it thinks I'm giving it instructions! Very distracting!
And don't get me started on the 'Speed control' and 'Lane control' warnings which I have to switch off every single time I start the engine. 😫
florence:
surely this is just a joke.
Eldrick:
As I understand it these screens can plug into the canbus on the BMW and mirror the BMW screen as well as be controlled from the 'wonder wheel'. They are also much clearer to read and can display sat nav at the same time. Making it one screen to control them all.
taysidedragon:
--- Quote from: florence on March 04, 2026, 03:10:21 PM ---surely this is just a joke.
--- End quote ---
I'm afraid not. 😟
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