I realize that I'm not the demographic that car designers are after anymore, but I was struck by the narrator's comment in the MB video link above. Describing all of the new electronics features in the new concept MB built around smartphones, he said something like, "it's designed to be a minimum of distraction to the driver...." A minimum of distraction??? Come on, that's exactly what this stuff is all about: 'how many other things can I be doing than being attentive to the road and the traffic around me?' A minimum of distraction would be to stop turning cars into video arcades.

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1988 California version 260E (W124)
Anthracite Grey/Palomino
Owned since new and still going strong and smooth
MBCA member

Past Mercedes-Benz:
1986 190E Baby Benz
1967 230 Inherited from mom when she downsized
1959 220S Introduced me to the joys of keepin' 'em goin'

There are only 10 kinds of people in the world--those who understand binary and those who don't