There was a time last year or so when I used to pass one of those toys plodding down the right lane of highway about 40 MPH 1 to 2 times a week. Same woman ~ 50s looking.
I laughed each time.,
My 2008 Smart car was $19500., bottom line. They are the silliest looking little boxes. But I had a VW too. That was all I could afford when I was 23 and I had to use my poor dad's Vet funds. I drove that bug all over the state and Mexico. I let ALL the bumps and bruises STAY so when people saw my car...they gave me room because, by looking at all the dented fenders they believed that "she doesn't care...let her go."
The Smart Car's speedometer goes to 100 MPH. I had a 68 VW, but the speedometer went only to 90. I took it to Mexico when I was young and out in the middle of the desert, I decided to see what it could do.
I got to a LONG hill and when I got to the top I OPENED it up, petal to the metal. Lol. At the bottom of the hill, full throttle, I got it PAST 90 M.P.H. all the way up to the 10 miles an hour on the OTHER side of the dial. THAT, agmigo mio, was 100 MPH. I let old Nellie slow down. Those bugs could move.
The Smart Car and the VW are German cars. The Germans can build cars.
Mind you I have driven in the city for eons and know that even one of the big boy cars are no match for the behemoth street cars and buses. They would CREAM anything on the road except ANOTHER street car or bus.
Learning to drive in a big city prepared me well for driving in Mexico and Mexico City. I needed it.
There is one in the parking lot of our marina. I kept watching it to see who was driving it and wondered how they charged it since there are no plug ins there. One day I watched a short very round woman of about 55 get in it. lol