LOL, you ever used a Ford Sync (Microsoft Sync) system? It's like 4 different screens with 1-2 seconds per screen to change sources fully. Texting probably would have been way safer. I -know- how to do that by voice in the car though! Haha
Seriously though, I really am pretty good about leaving my phone in my pocket while driving, too easy to lose track of time if you're dicking with it. I used the voice control for everything, you can send/respond to texts with it pretty decently (though sometimes it just displays them on the screen, which probably isn't any better than on your phone, really).
I do use my phone for navigation though. The Ford Nav was garbage and out of date. The BMW has A) better NAV and B) can actually talk to the phone's Nav to give me directions. Using the phone Nav is, again, probably a bad habit, even though I was usually listening to it moreso than starting at it.
All that said, when I was a dipshit teenager I put a TV in my center console, and I -know- I watched that driving before. Teenagers are dumb. You can enable the ability to do that in the BMW, and people are all about it. Even if it was for my passengers, there is NO WAY that's a good idea, period. I mean, these are grown ass adults, you'd think they'd know better.
