Are You Completely Happy With The Design Of Elio?

[Maurtis]

For the record, since I brought up the subject: I don't vape, though I know folks who do

LOL, my wife vapes. We both used to smoke, I quit cold turkey but she went patch -> gum -> vaping and stuck with the vaping since it is yummy and takes care of the nicotine cravings.

 

[Frim]

I vape. it is called Albuterol and used in a nebulizer. Asthma sucks!!

 

[Marshall]

Yeah, they need an open 12v socket so they can recharge the batteries in their e-cig.

I've lived a very sheltered life. The only time I've ever used the lighter was back when the pager (later a cell phone) needed to be recharged every two hours and my trips were longer than that.

 

[Lil4X]

Lessee . . . . I have apps on my phone for -

1. Entertainment: Pandora, I Heart Radio, and several podcasts.
2. Navigation: Here+, now orphaned in the US., VZ Navigator.
   
3. Traffic: Traffik.
4. OBDII codes: Code Reader.
5. Weather Radar: My Radar.
   
6. Phone, Texts.

When do I have time to drive?

 

[HonestTex]

For the record, since I brought up the subject: I don't vape, though I know folks who do

Same here.

 

[HonestTex]

I vape. it is called Albuterol and used in a nebulizer. Asthma sucks!!

I guess my wife is a double vaper? vapor? vapii? And yes, asthma sucks!!

 

[Thomas Malkin]

I have nothing but these:
I wish cruise control would be optional, as I despise anything that overrides my manual control. Ever. No computer controls. Just a wheel and gears between me and the front wheels, hydraulics between me and the brakes, a mechanical throttle to control the engine. No antilock brakes, as that means a computer is awaiting an opportunity to take over from me, and I don't trust it. I've driven my old cars forever, and it seems I know how.
I wish manually cranked windows were an option. Electric windows are one more item to break down. Manual cranks last longer than the car. I *like* cranking the window. No accidental bumps, no groping in the dark for the buttons.
This will make people nuts: I'd like the option to pass on the air bags.
I want an late-80s early-90s style simple, unkillable car. That I can fix. I want a super-light Escort. Hell, I wish I could pass on the ECM. That's a rare dream.
And I used to be a programmer, and am a tech enthusiast. I just believe they are hubristic in their trust of control systems overriding the driver. There's a lot of confirmation bias, and childlike trust in computers we used to reserve for teddy bears. It's a toaster.

 

[Thomas Malkin]

Lessee . . . . I have apps on my phone for -

1. Entertainment: Pandora, I Heart Radio, and several podcasts.
2. Navigation: Here+, now orphaned in the US., VZ Navigator.
   
3. Traffic: Traffik.
4. OBDII codes: Code Reader.
5. Weather Radar: My Radar.
   
6. Phone, Texts.

When do I have time to drive?

And yet, we go nuts about texting, and ignore all the heads bowed down playing with the car computer. Used to be people playing with the radio and cosmetic mirrors in the visors that caused inattentiveness. Yet we never got rid of the radios, or the mirrors - because we liked playing with them. Texting is new, and used by young people, so we go nuts.

 

[Coss]

Then perhaps the Elio is not the vehicle for you.

 

[Elio Amazed]

When you get the Elio, perhaps you can mod it into a '64 Ford Falcon.