Driving without the display screen.

[RKane]

Has anyone else adopted this?

I found if I did not need the nav then the I would use the energy flow diagram but this can be quite distracting. I have been using main display off for a week or two and it works well for me. The speech lady seems to understand me pretty well - much better than the voice control on previous makes  - so that helps a lot.

If you touch the lower part of the screen the climate control pops up and then closes again after adjusting. The camera comes on with reverse gear and when set to auto (got that tip on here) comes on at slow speeds for parking and goes off afterwards. The nav screen will come on and stay on when you input a destination by voice. 

At any time you can bring the main screen back on just by touching it.

[Rabbers]

I once tried turning the display off in order to see if I could do without the map screen, which I habitually keep on - I imagine like most people - even when I know exactly where I am and where I am going and consequently have no need for the nav function.  I must admit that my experiment was of very brief duration for the simple reason that I almost immediately understood that an active screen regardless of the content has for better or worse become an essential component of my cabin environment notwithstanding its frequent redundancy.