Overall great car with a couple needed improvements
Overall we love our Ioniq 5. It's fun to drive, comfortable to ride in, and performs as advertised. The back seat is great for our kids and we appreciate the thoughtful interior design and technology. Our only negative feedback related to some of the safety features. First, the blind spot alerts alarm with false positives all the time (eg it starts beeping when there is no one in the blind spot, but merely a car several lengths behind me that I can see clearly in the mirror). This behavior conditions the driver to ignore the blind spot warning. Secondly, the interface for changing the driving style and iPedal settings feels unsafe. I drive with the iPedal all the way up for regenerative braking and one-foot driving. But when I put the car in reverse (say, to make a three-point turn), the iPedal setting gets switched to a lower default, meaning that the braking behavior of the vehicle changes from one point in the turn to the next. Similarly, if I set the iPedal all the way up and then cycle through driving styles, the iPedal settings get changed automatically. What this means is that when I have the vehicle at a stop with the iPedal, if I push the driving style button, the iPedal settings change and the car starts rolling away. This is very dangerous, and I'd prefer a way to leave the iPedal setting at my desired position (all the way up) rather than having it default to a different setting every time I change gear or turn the car off.
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