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I just want to weigh in as someone who has used I Drive for almost 3 years in my 545 (SMG transmission). I find it to be a very easy to use system and to provide improved safety. Once you've got your car set up you rarely use it for anything other than radio and navigation (which i don't use much). I never have to take my eyes off the road to do make radio adjustments. I have seen so many articles bashing iDrive but these are typically on very short term use scenarios where they are tinkering with the everything constantly. That's just not real world use. That being said, when i first got the car it took me a week or two to understand it. Once i did i preferred it to Hondas of the world. BMW's have always been more gadgetty and when they didn't have iDrive people complained about too many buttons.
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