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Old Nov 12, 2025 | 10:42 AM
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Any idea what the PRactical purpose of this custom insert panel in the middle. It’s nice to see that there’s a car in front of me if I ever decided not to look thru the windshiel

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It's the following distance that you have set on your Distronic cruise control. Adjustable by you.

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So this isn’t the screen showing the cruise control . This simply shows the distance in feet the car is in front. It will increase and decrease accordingly. Seems to have no real purpose other than to provide an option under that suite of screen choices It seems the engineers needed a fill and this was the easiest to program
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This is the Driving Assistance view. It shows you what the car's systems see and what it's doing when DISTRONIC and Active Steering is active. On this screen it will indicate things like that it sees the car ahead of you, when automatic lane changes are initiated or rejected etc. Basically it gives you insight into the Driving Assistance brain of the car. If none of the systems are active, then the display is pretty useless.
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That is a reminder that there is a car in front of you and not to hit it . Part of the distronic plus. Learn to use it.
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