Using the Touchscreen

It’s been a little over a month since my Panamera Turbo was delivered. I sometimes use the touchscreen when heading out on longer drives, so I feel like I’m finally getting a little more comfortable with it.

That said, there are still plenty of features I haven’t discovered, and I think I’m only using the essentials. Here’s what I use:

① Navigation
Setting a destination, checking my current location, and so on
② Assist
Turning off Lane Keep Assist, and so on
③ Vehicle
Turning the spoiler (rear wing) on and off, changing the suspension settings, and so on

That’s about it. That said, once you save your preferred Assist and Vehicle settings to your key, you don’t need to change them each time you drive, so I may end up using little more than the navigation. Apparently, there are plenty of other useful features, including app integration and hands-free calling in the car, but I haven’t really used any of them yet.

If you listen to the radio in your car, you’ll probably use the Media button a lot, too. I’m usually a fan of driving in silence, though, so I don’t use it. One thing I’ve recently discovered is that using the buttons below the touchscreen is easier than tapping directly on the screen.

When you’re driving, you might reach for something on the navigation screen and accidentally hit the wrong button because your finger moves. That doesn’t happen when I use the buttons below. And there’s something oddly satisfying about the little “click” when you press one. I don’t have much more to share about the touchscreen just yet—but once I get the hang of more of its features, I hope to write about them in another post.

On a completely unrelated note, my husband is heading overseas on a business trip for a while starting today. And lately, I’ve been walking to and from kindergarten drop-off and pick-up for exercise, so (it’s a 20-minute walk each way, up and down hills) I probably won’t get to drive the Panamera Turbo much. Maybe I’ll find a chance to take a trip up Royu Driveway.