GUI experiment: promoting drive manually

Steve Jobs and Apple said, “Think Different.” So I’m trying a few things. What do you think of this? Better? Easier? Too big? Missing something? Comment below!

The driving controls in the bottom right used to be hidden in a menu. I found that I was opening and closing that menu all the time and that was kind of silly. Does this work better for you? Any other ideas to make things clearer? I want your comments and feedback.