Smooth ride, nice body definition, invasive driving monitoring
The Tucson does ride smoothly. The option for a 10 year, one hundred thousand mile bumper-to-bumper warranty, by paying extra, is worth it if you’re going to keep the car for a very long time. The body style is nice, has character. I prefer less chrome, personally. Here’s what I Really don’t like… The Tucson notices, from it’s little camera perched on top of my steering wheel, if it looks like my eyes are closing. It will shake my car with several soft rapid bumps that I feel might be representative of me, hitting a small animal, or driving over median ribs. The dash will light up a picture of a steaming cup of proverbial coffee, and suggest that I take a break from driving. The issue is that the car thinks it is discovering my need for a break SEVERAL times a day. It confuses squinting and tilting my head slightly back to avoid harsh sun in my eyes, with falling asleep at the wheel. The car can lose connection with satellite WiFi, it is common for all cars. But, this car notifies me of a SERIOUS ISSUE, lighting up my information screen in red. The instruction is to get to a dealership IMMEDIATELY. This happened 2 weeks after purchase, while out of state, on an expressway. I went online and made an appointment at my local Hyundai dealership for service. When I arrived at said dealership, not the dealership I purchased the car from, they were not expecting me, and there was no loaner. They did not check the system from the weekend. After several hours of waiting time, I was told that the message was regarding the car losing connectivity with the satellite. I was told that if I had driven the car for 10 more miles, the warning message would’ve gone off by itself, and that it was nothing to worry about. Not one word about that in the car manual, add red lights and an ominous message, whose idea was that? The roof racks make the Tucson look a little sporty, which is why I liked them. It turns out that they high pitched whistle over 40 mph. So, I cannot keep the roof racks on the car. Truly disappointing, is that I was told by someone in service, at a Hyundai dealership, that this is a well known problem that has existed for years. (WHAT GIVES HYUNDAI?) Please excuse the obviousness of the next question… why has Hyundai not found a better product? Plenty of time to do so. I drove a Jeep Cherokee with roof racks for 9 years, never whistled once. My largest issue with the Tucson is the invasive driving monitoring system. It is not made for city driving, at least not Chicago city driving. The car is constantly beeping at me. Moving the steering wheel, against my control, to try to pull me back into a lane that I am trying to leave. This pulling happens immediately between turning on my signal and actually moving to change lanes or exit an off ramp. Again, not for city driving. The MOST invasive feature is the crash avoidance feature. If I am too close, in my carmakers mind, to the traffic INFRONT of me, the car will beep and add a fast series of warning bumps. I am ignoring this, because I can see that the car in front of me is moving, and I am moving with traffic. The car will slam on ITS OWN brakes, stopping the car dead, if it feels that I am about to collide. I am never about to collide when this happens. But… the person behind me almost slams into the back of me when this happens.The car programing is going to cause an accident, all by its bossy self.. When the car slams on the brakes, it is a hard, fast stop. the car does not move forward again for several seconds. This does not allow me to roll forward, away from a potential crash, but I can not. I continue to try to avoid a collision created by the car itself.
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