The car is probably made to security standards of the markets it's aiming for, and some places (like China) have weaker standards than US/Europe. If BYD planned

The car is probably made to security standards of the markets it's aiming for, and some places (like China) have weaker standards than US/Europe. If BYD planned to sell the model in US/Europe, then they would've engineered it to meet their security standards and just need to do "the paperwork" of submitting a few cars for (crash-)testing to satisfy the authorities.