The risks of taking your eyes off the road to do something that could be done by simply touching a knob before, are supposedly mitigated by automatic braking, but the idea of making something less safe because there are other safety systems to supposedly compensate for it is preposterous. The 'clean' design is an excuse to dedicate everything to screens, as those are ultimately less expensive to build, and can be sold for more money, under the desguise of progress or modernity. They have to be operable with physical controls, easy to find and manipulate. Critical controls have to be operable with controllers that don't have to be looked at, talked to, screamed at or gestured at. Defies safety logic to me.Ĭlick to expand.Alas, it's not to each his own. Most people can’t handle using the correct signal light sequence in a traffic circle or roundabout as it is, and that is just a stalk lever, without having a computer to play with.

But, to each his own I guess, I just hope that people are not in wrecks because of fiddling with the controller, ortrying to find the screen they actually want.Ĭars need an attention and focus to be driven safely, and there are so many people driving distracted just from cellphones, I can’t image introducing another full blown computer to the dash. That function is more distracting than just hitting a switch, and I don’t use it on the i7 unless stopped/parked. I don’t want to have to be talking to my car to enable all the functions, or be fcking around with the rotary controller while driving.

Maybe it is because that is what I grew up with and I‘m just used that set-up.

I like the switches and controls as an option for control functions. Personally I would buy anything with i8, or other manufacturer with a similar program.

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