Sounds like you had a great trip, even if it wasn’t quite as you’d planned!
I bought the tag for the tolls as I couldn’t be bothered with hassle of tolls without a passenger to operate them. There aren’t usually queues on the roads I use, in my experience, but it still saves a few seconds. On the lights, I think a lot of cars now have a flat dipped beam pattern, so no need to change as you say. Certainly that was the case when I came to France in the MINI last year, as that didn’t require any changes or beam deflectors to be compliant. I haven’t driven in the dark either, though have been through a few tunnels. Changing the setting must do something, and it’s more advanced than the last Merc I had which, when changing to ‘driving on the right’ told me that the ILS (intelligent lighting system?) has been deactivated. This one carried on as normal.
I also forgot to mention that even though I left the car in ‘miles’ on the drive from Beaune the car still read speed limit signs as normal, and adapted the cruise to the speed it read, in Km/h. Presumably it uses the GPS to figure out the units?
The St Bernard pass and Italy beckons... A coffee and pain au chocolate first I think!
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