So I have always hated Tesla and don’t like that they’ve in a lot of way tarnished the name of electric cars. The second you say electric cars every person and their mom says OHH you’re getting a tesla! Quite annoying.
Anyways, I’d like to hear from some of you folks some models of electrics you like. I have always been a gearhead deep in the gas and oil, and I still enjoy my cars, but an electric would be fun and a cost savings for me, especially since I have a ton of roof space for solar panels if I wanted to.
It sounds superficial but a big reason I used to hate electric cars is they are for the most part, hideous. Then again, to me, most new cars are hidous, the designs are just not good. But I think i can look past that.
It would also be a huge bonus if there were any models out there with the least possible features. I prefer cars with manual locks/seats/doors and no screen, which is of course impossible with current cars (sadly). But the less digital garbage the better.
Do not buy the Hyundai Ioniq. The car itself is great (although it has a lot of modern features you dont want) but dealing with Hyundai is such a nightmare that I will never again buy a Hyundai.
A few years ago I got into a wreck in an Elantra (only me, no one else harmed) and none of the airbags went off. If I had been forward thinking enough to document it, I’d have filed a lawsuit immediately.
The car was great while I had it, all the bells and whistles, great mileage, everything. But I won’t ever get one again for safety reasons.
Modern airbags only go off if you crash in a direction that they can help, e.g. if you slide sideways into a pole, you’d only expect curtain airbags to go off, not the one in your steering wheel. Airbags are dangerous so you only want them to go off when they aren’t going to make things worse.
Though by the way you italicised “none”, perhaps the car is full of airbags all over and they still didn’t go off?
I also seem to remember a massive recall from a decade back because the world’s biggest airbag manufacturer found many of their airbags didn’t go off properly.
Dunno about the recall, but you’re right in that I had airbags all around me. I hit a tree in the driver side door, neither airbag around the doorframe went off. I’m lucky I made it out with just a broken shoulder bone, among the other injuries I could have/did sustain.
Allegedly it was a spinout caused by over correction (I got knocked out by the impact and don’t remember most of that night), so maybe the spinning motions fucked with the directional sensors, but I would expect in the event of a spinout collision, every airbag should go off, at least programming wise.
I don’t know if airbags are connected enough to coordinate with each other, but you kind of expect they should err on the side of going off if unsure rather than not going off!
Just looked up the recall, apparently 100 million airbags recalled starting from 2013. It seems to have resulted in the bankruptcy of the company!
It might be a little early to be related to your crash if it was just a few years back. Hopefully you’re doing ok now!
Very much might be then, it was a 2012/2013 Elantra, wish I’d known about the recall.