Personal safety leaves a lot to be desired
Why in the world do all the doors need to be unlocked in order to open the gas compartment cover?! Why can't I lock the car by hitting the lock button inside the driver's door when that door is open? As a woman who often drives alone, I do not feel safe driving this car. It's like the car WANTS someone to jump into my car while I'm getting gas or just simply getting out of my car and trying to QUICKLY lock it before leaving it in a parking lot. Also, I do appreciate that it lets me know if a car is in my blind spot when I'm changing lanes while driving, but in my part of the country there are often two left or right turn lanes side by side at an intersection, and if I'm in one of them with my turn signal on and another car is in the lane next to me, it beeps like I'm about to hit them which I very much am not. My only option seems to be to turn off the blind spot detection altogether. Don't even get me started on the haptic feedback in the steering wheel, which is so startling that it's more likely to make me drive off the road than save me from straying out of my lane. I did have to turn that option off. I also turned off the option for the car to literally take control of my steering when I'm getting into a turn lane; who wants that?! My last car was a 2009 Santa Fe and the personal safety features on that car were MUCH better, with a latch on the inside that allowed me to pop the gas cover while the doors remained locked, and the ability to lock the car from inside the driver's door when I was exiting the vehicle. The only thing I like better about the 2025 Tucson over my old Santa Fe is the large maps display and the Android Auto integration, both of which are excellent. I do love Hyundai as a brand but this is not my favorite Hyundai model by far!