The last EV I drove was a Renault Zoe, as they're available for hire from the street with an app.

It is a normal, small, city car. Windscreen wipers on the usual stalks, knobs and buttons for climate control, etc. In part because it lacks some electronic safety features (lane-departure warning, automatic emergency braking) it has a very poor safety rating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Zoe

> Side glass that can withstand a steel bearing is fluff.

This one I actually think would have been somewhat useful, presuming it was cheap enough to actually use. I don't throw steel bearings at my car, but I would imagine that strength probably carries over to stuff falling out of trucks, rocks being flung by tires, etc.

It's not world-changing, but it would have been useful.

Good luck when you drive into a lake and can't break your way out like that dead billionaire

Do you regularly drive your car into lakes? I would legitimately be surprised if I ever know a person that this has happened to never mind if it ever happened to me.

There was a wealthy lady that was driving drunk I believe in the news who put her Tesla into her pond by accident and drowned b/c she couldn't get the windows down and the doors to open. Her biggest problem was the alcohol though.

Friends could not save her b/c they could not break the laminated glass. We have safety hammers in all of our cars for that reason.

I’ve never had nor heard of anyone having an issue with a foreign object breaking a side window. Is it common?

> Side glass that can withstand a steel bearing is fluff.

Quite the reverse, actually—it's an anti-safety feature.