Ask HN: If you drive a car, what car is it and why?

I recently want to upgrade my car for improved comfort and safety features. I'm located in an area where $/kWh is not cheap. Everyone around me raves about the Tesla but I can't seem to see it beating a hybrid in $/mile. And it lacks features like parking sensors (the vision based parking assist failed 50% of the time during my test drive). The test drive went poorly overall. I'm not a "$TSLA short" hater, as I happily hold the stock, but I was excited to be done with my vehicle search and disappointed in its performance.

I want to know how people choose what car to drive, and what metrics people optimize for.