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I think the car companies envisioned we would all get more on board with the voice commands. But that’s awkward, to me. I don’t want to talk out loud in the car, I want to be silent and drive.
I had a new 7 loaner for a couple weeks. You get used to it, but I don’t prefer it. It’s also a safety issue.
I think it will be like anything else. They went hard to the extreme and between safety regs and consumer wants, it will settle back somewhere in the middle.
I like the digital instrument panel in my 2020 M550. I use it on reduced mode and it’s nice.
The biggest problem for me in BMW is how they gave no thought to dash integration on cars like the 3/4 series. They were mid chassis life and instead of redesigning the dash, they just mounted a big screen to the existing design. Looks very lazy and unsettling. Benz did a better job on their first iteration of this.
I’ve been perusing F90’s and M850/M8 GC’s for 9 months, now. One of those (probably F90) will be my next car, eventually. So, maybe by the time I’m a couple cars from now into the future, it will be a better setup.
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