To be fair, which none EV with autonomy could you buy at only 5k? And add to that the maintenance, taxes, fuel, etc. a decently modern used petrol or diesel car will entail, maybe 5k as a hard cut off makes owning any car financially unrealistic long term, especially when, like you mentioned, needing driver aids.
Well, a second hand one, of course ? My current car would sell for something between 5-9k€, and I guarentee you I only stop in the middle of the trip to pee, and not to refill (given the insane gas prices on highway stations.)
The expectation for the average driver is that you're going to buy maybe one semi-new car in your life, and then sell it to buy other used cars, with maybe a small down payment, as your needs grow (family changes, need for bigger load, etc..)
The first-hand market is a fraction of the total market for cars. (In France, 6 out of 7 cars sold are second hand according to this source [1], I suspect it's similar in other countries.)
So, of course there is a chicken and egg issue for EVs, where used EVs can't have a decent range since even brand new EVs are barely going by.
Again, with some R&D, it will get better. But we needed that R&D to happen 30 years ago, and instead people where working on putting Bluetooth in the media center.
