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Old 01-07-2020, 07:45 PM   #16
Alan
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Originally Posted by FC View Post
Everything about it seemed weird. All I could hear was him tapping away at the screen and reading dialogue boxes and tapping to select/accept, etc. Looked cool as hell but unlike iDrive where you can get close to a selection, get your eyes back on the road, and glance once more for the final selection, the big screen doesn’t allow that. Your finger is floating in the middle of a huge screen and to look away essentially means starting over which clearly forced him to want to finish the selection.
This scares the shit out of me too ... distracted driving is a serious problem ... both of my kids that drive have been in big accidents because of it ... my sons A3 got rear ended incredibly hard in stop and go traffic and my daughters 2017 A4 had someone go through a redlight and crash into the rear drivers door sending her first A4 flying into another car ... at the time there were 4 17 yr old girls in the car ... thankfully all the kids were ok but it was scary ... the 2017 A4 was totaled

Both accidents paid for by the other insurance carriers being it was their fault and both drivers were on their phones.

I think phones should be inoperable while in a car unless controlled by car play/android play/blue tooth.

One problem is these systems work ‘ok’ but still have glitches...

Last edited by Alan; 01-08-2020 at 09:57 AM.
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