1) The "pointless text" was a reminder that the system detected you were tired, and asked you to take a break. Which is usually a good idea because it kicks in, when you're really tired and your reactions are shit.

2) It looks like you pressed the Microphone button for the voice control by accident

3) It's the AR-Navigation which shows you where you need to drive in the real-life situation. That's usually a paid extra and you need to enable it

The pointless text is a complex, visual distraction and false positive. Hypothetically, if I'm really tired and have bad reactions, pedestrians better hope I'm not reading that text at the wrong time. You seem to think it's a safety feature to ask the driver to read while driving. I just think that's interesting.

As for the AR-Navigation, I already see what's ahead of me by looking forward at the actual road.

Embedding everything into a grainy image, and using a transition effect to command attention, is unhelpful in a tense moment.

It was enabled by default. I disabled it.

Normally, I would have used Google Maps, which shows very clear and strong, clean icons to indicate lanes. This is extremely helpful! Smart and empathetic design that understands my needs when driving in an unfamiliar place.

But the Car Play was too dysfunctional to use.

As for the microphone button, I didn't see a microphone button. Maybe they should make it more visible, or find a more ergonomic way to handle an error.

I used to have a BMW that was doing that. My 'capacity/tolerance' to driving is max 10-12 hours. All I need is meat, caffeine, and SecurityNow and/or Metallica. I get it that BWM is trying to do the 'right' thing, but they should allow people to turn the darn thing off.