[JSpira]

Originally Posted by ragingclue

Owned? No. Drove at least five times a week for two years? Yes. I was totally opposed to the driver taking their eyes off the road when it didn't exactly take a genius to memorize where the buttons were in the car to control each function. It seemed counter-intuitive at the time, but like many other tech ideas, you knew it would eventually evolve into something much friendlier and more useful.

I concur. The original iDrive was just too complicated and didn't have sufficient voice commands behind it.