[maddog55]

Wife’s new Volvo is a technology nightmare. Bought one in 2023 had all kinds of issues, would slam on the brakes doing 60 and say collision avoidance but nothing there. This happened numerous times. It would slam on the brakes backing out of the garage with nothing there, lost all audio and displays for several hours. POS and finally I gave Volvo an ultimatum full refund or replace the car. They gave us a 2024 at no cost difference. Minor problems on this one so far but you can’t drive for 90 minutes when it does a S/W upgrade. All Google controlled and everything I can is disabled and I told the dealer I will not setup user account in the car..we’re on guest mode.

[Bernard]

say collision avoidance but nothing there

I thought the new models say "Joe Biden handshake (but nothing there)"

[Tell It Right]

Our 2022 Hyundai Ioniq 5 (EV) works great. Of course, that's only if you're in a market for an EV like us (married thus need 2 cars anyway so one is ICE and one is EV to have best of both worlds, live in the south where we don't have freezing cold winters, can charge at home, virtually all road trips we take have good fast charging options, and the wife likes to stop every 150-200 miles and walk around 10-15 minutes anyway). On top of that I'm trying to be more energy self-reliant -- with solar I produce most of the power needed for our home and charging the EV in the 16K miles we charged the EV last year from home (not counting the other 10K miles we drove it from charging it elsewhere).

I disabled the driving correction features, including the auto-stop. However I left enabled the warning for stopping. There were a couple of times it warned us for no reason, but that was fixed by simply cleaning the sensors. I'm very pleased with the tech that makes it work like an EV (charging and driving efficiency so it doesn't hog up a lot of power per mile), particularly it being a crossover shape.

About the only way we could be happier with our new car is if it was a new ICE car and I could drill and refine my own oil to be 80% self reliant driving it for local driving. I can't stand the Dims' stupid war on energy. We shouldn't have to think in terms of producing our own energy at the household level to remove one of the ways the Dims control us.