Three Months In An S5

[Joningy]

Couldn’t agree more. However the insistent message of ‘please focus on driving’ which ironically distracts me from driving!! Additionally the speed sign recognition that then picks up speed signs on side streets and hence informs me I am speeding!!!! The only bright side of this is it’s just a boing as bitching Betty appears to have disappeared! I test drove a BYD Seal hybrid which had much better’all round’ improvements; the voice control actually does something and you can answer and hang up the phone! Whilst I think the S5 is a reasonable car I feel let down by the avionics- totally let down. I am on the cusp of trading it in for a BYD especially now the road tax makes it an expensive car……

I now get a very peaceful drive in my S5, I've turned off all the annoying bings and bongs, but you'll need to turn down the volume in one of the menu's to totally stop the most annoying ones, I cant remember exactly how I turned down the sound, but it's all quite normal to drive now, so long as I remember to disable the custom pilot before I set off, I get a reminder if I do forget, we are deep in the countryside in a 30MPH zone, it bongs 3 times if I forget to disable the crud.

 

[emmrecs]

so long as I remember to disable the custom pilot before I set off

Did you actually mean enable the custom pilot?

 

[TimothyN]

That's an interesting bit of semantics. I would say that you are using the settings exclusively to disable things, no? Where's Bertrand Russell when you need him?

 

[emmrecs]

I think the point is that you have to enable the Custom Pilot button (each time you drive the car) if you have chosen settings which are NOT the car's defaults and have saved them to that button. By definition "custom" surely means "non-default" so, essentially, personalised and "my choice" of settings.