I understand that over 300,000 Hyundai's Elantra Touring models built between 2008 through 2012 have the same exact issue, the "Steering Column" suddenly stops working making the steering wheel very hard and thus a real danger to control the car in case of emergency.

At this time I don't know if there have been any accidents that have occurred from this problem. Hyundai is very aware of this problem but they refuse to do anything about it. They came out with a recall for the software and what I understand they failed to inform "Elantra Touring" customers about it, even though they claim they did.

I drove a used Toyota RAV4 back to the office that we had just purchased as a work vehicle. Driving down the interstate at 70 mph the steering column suddenly started to move around. It turns out the petite young woman who accompanied us on the test drive had failed to properly lock it in place after readjusting it when she took a turn at the wheel.

I will check your links to see if I missed something.

The EPS light comes on and the car loses the the hydraulic function. At the beginning, I would turn the car off, then back on and the problem went away, but the 3rd time it happened it never came back. I took it to the dealer for the update, they updated the software, which was a useless update, and said the colunm had to be replaced at a cost of over $2,000.00 between the part and labour.

No Hyundai has not taken care of the problem, if you go out and google for the problem you will find hundreds of posts about the issue, and news about the over 300,000 cars of the same model who have the problem.

Hyundai may say the loss of hydraulic system is within the "manageable" limits, that may be for a man, but my wife was not able to handle it, and even for a man, if a moment came up where you had to steer the wheel to save you from an accident, I can bet 90% of people would not be able to do it, there would be an accident. My assumption is that there are not many accidents because most people will not drive the car once the problem comes up.

If not accidents have occurred, which I doubt, it is an accident waiting to happen.

I am glad because Hyundai knew they had a problem and continued to use the same parts. Very dangerous.

Things get more complicated as they get built out with the advancement of time. Statistically I'm not as safe, but I'm not a statistic yet, knock wood.