Only for cool people

Electric cars have been around since the early 1900s.

Even before that, and long before internal combustion engine cars.

My daughter has downs syndrome and looks a hell of a lot cuter than that car.

It was a one of a kind custom/concept car.

Pretty sure the moment you get into any kind of accident in this thing you'd lose any happiness you might have gained

That about sums it up. There are quite a few cool cars, some more obscure than others, that were either concepts or even made it to production. Sedans with front seats that swiveled around so you could face the back seats, wagons with gold up rear seats that fit 7+, and most people know about volkwagons vans and utility trucks of the 60’s-80’s (including the camper van.) They don’t make cars like that for a few reasons, but one you hit on the nose. Many of these novel designs that are just cool or very versatile or efficient just aren’t safe or would be impractical or impossible to make safe. There’s a sort of intersection of sorts where automobiles and technology were wide spread and at an established leg of development, and regulations hadn’t yet caught up. In this period were some down right interesting road vehicles.