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BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes
- __m 2y agoI guess they can't get away with just claiming to add rocket thrusters to their cars to hype their brand. I don't even know who the CEO is. Still a silly idea, unless your customer is batman.
- bigcat12345678 2y agoWow, I cannot believe how awkward to see such negative review just because it's a Chinese brand... This is insanely cool. Not mentioning the implied tech. Of course you know it's a Chinese brand. The internal mindset shifting happen so naturally...
- pcl 2y agoI think the OP was making a sarcastic dig at Musk’s history of promises and cult of personality, by comparing to a company that is comparatively just quietly executing.
- atoav 2y agoCan the "insanely cool" thing jump over climate change induced megafires? Forgive my cynicism, but I dislike products like that because it represents the polar opposite of what the world needs right now. Your assessment of anti-sinoistic sentiment is on point tho.
- rmbyrro 2y ago"what (I think) the world needs right now" is people who make uncomfortable sacrifices to live up to the ideas they defend, before calling for massive collective change and policing other people's personal choices and interests
- atoav 2y agoYeah, naturally we're only allowed to combat human extinction if we jump across imaginary moral bars some people set up. /s Bars that always turn out as a hypocrytical pretext to end the discussion prematurely. I say hypocritical because once there eventually is someone who dares to jump it and offer the same criticism the bar gets moved. No, I don't need to be a saint, a monk and carbon negative to say that in a world moving towards human extinction a jumping supercar should not exist.
- rmbyrro 2y ago> if we jump across imaginary moral bars some people set up Aren't you you the one setting up imaginary moral bars for what kinds of features a car should or should not have? And for what people should or shouldn't want in a car? Aren't you the one believing "we're only allowed to combat human extinction" if we jump across your imaginary moral bars?
- atoav 2y agoNo, I am not setting imaginary bars. I say that I personally think that people developing/selling/buying such a product are immoral (to me) and doing a disservice to humanity (in my eyes). Do with that what you will. Now I am not a fan of banning things, but if you are at a mountain hut with a weak solar battery and one guy keeps plugging in a toaster because he doesn't want to chop wood, I am all for banning the toaster. The world is not a place of unlimited resources and those who pretend it is while they make others pay the price are (to me) the lowest form of life and undeserving of any form of respect.
- oytis 2y agoI guess getting this car registered with this feature built in will be difficult in most countries too.
- Hamuko 2y agoWhy? I don't think the car inspection office will check if the car jumps. Mostly that the suspension doesn't have play in it.
- rahkiin 2y agoI barely know any CEOs and I am happy when I can buy a product without knowing all political affiliations and personal opinions of the CEO that may or may not have an effect on their business decisions or on the business output.
- nirui 2y ago> I don't even know who the CEO is Ah, the benefit of having a Chinese CEO, they tend to want less public attention to themselves. "Man don't want to be famous, like pig don't want to grow big" as people say. That, plus the fact BYD's founder/CEO (same guy) was not as flashy (reads "Unhinged") as Elon Musk. FYI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chuanfu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chuanfu
- pjc50 2y agoThinking of Jack Ma. You don't want to get too prominent in China, billionaires there aren't above the police.
- bildung 2y agoWell to be fair, he got prominent and created an illegal peer-to-peer lending business to enrich himself on the despair of lower-income people - in a country that has heavy financial regulation in place to prevent exactly these kinds of developments (same as MLM schemes etc.).
- nirui 2y agoAh... Jack Ma, My favorite example on why nobody should try to be a communist propagandist. The man traveled to the US back in 2017 and publicly criticized how US utilized their tax incomes etc see [Link 1], then just few years later he lost half of his wealth for criticizing Xi Jinpin [Link 2]. So, apparently be a communist lapdog did very little in helping him gain political shield. [Link 1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chinese-billionaire-jack-ma-says-the-us-wasted-trillions-on-warfare-instead-of-investing-in-infrastructure.html https://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/18/chinese-billionaire-jack-ma-... [Link 2]: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/12/business/china-jack-ma-wealth-drop-intl-hnk/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/12/business/china-jack-ma-we...
- hawski 2y agoWhen I hear Chinese CEO, I think they may be easily replaced and in the end the real CEO is Xi Jinping. I am sure it is a bit more complicated and I may have some prejudice, but how far am I? I would expect for a Chinese CEO that would behave like Elon Musk to disappear quite quickly. Am I wrong in this assessment as well?
- pyrale 2y ago> I don't even know who the CEO is. In 2025, this has to be a praise.
- nhinck3 2y agoWhile these are probably way too heavy, can't wait for someone Mark Webber themselves doing this over a crest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXZaAuyuYmQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXZaAuyuYmQ
- Cumpiler69 2y agoThe Canberra milk kid?
- vfclists 2y agoIs it smart enough to avoid jumping when going round a bend? A car can't be steered when it is airborne.
- DoingIsLearning 2y agoIt's a concept for R&D to try stuff out and for Marketing to get people to talk about the brand. I would be surprised an active system like this would survive the lifetime of a car without an unpalatable amount of maintenance and parts replacement.
- jillesvangurp 2y agoSoftware adaptable suspension is nothing new. All this does is add some camera feedback and software smartness to the mix so it can anticipate obstacles and make real time adjustments to minimize their impact. That software will run fine for as long as the chips last. And technically the whole point here is to reduce shock impact which probably helps reducing the amount of wear and tear on the parts. It does look cool though and probably having a lot of cars jumping over things on the highway would not end well. But it is neat technology.
- onlypassingthru 2y agoThis technology may trickle down to regular cars. If a car was smart enough to lift, or just prevent dropping, each tire as it drove over a pothole, it might prevent a blowout and accident on the highway. Pretty neat, if you ask me.
- kikimora 2y agoIt will be so cool to turn your wheels while airborne! Landing will be hilarious. Seriously, I don’t think jumping car is a good idea.
- cm2187 2y ago...and speedbumps!
- imhoguy 2y agoCan't stand that video mastering, looks like AI fake.
- re-lre-l 2y agoAh https://youtu.be/3KPYIaks1UY?t=83 https://youtu.be/3KPYIaks1UY?t=83
- throwaway290 2y agoSo the actual headline should be "Chinese car company overtakes American headphone maker from 8 years ago":)) Active suspension apparently quietly was in luxury cars for a while...
- bayindirh 2y agoThis came to my mind when I first saw it, but I see it as a good iteration/improvement on what we have done before (we as in humans). I see this as hyped research, that's all, and it's good for everyone.
- est 2y agoBose sold the tech to ClearMotion, which now partners with NIO https://blog.clearmotion.com/clearmotion-partners-with-nio-to-make-active-suspension-technology-a-reality-for-consumers/ https://blog.clearmotion.com/clearmotion-partners-with-nio-t...
- imp0cat 2y agoThey could fix potholes, but instead decided to make their cars jump? Very creative. :)
- lm28469 2y ago"they", as if we didn't have potholes in the us/eu.
- vertis 2y agoI've never seen as many potholes as when I visited Canada FWIW. I'm a Kiwi and I've driven all over AU/EU/UK (Little bit of US, but only really CA and Maine). I didn't drive in China, but I've been driven multiple times and the highways and main roads seemed solid.
- zimpenfish 2y agoThe UK certainly has its share ("councils expected to fix 2M potholes in FY24"[0] - London, alas, is not getting them fixed all that quickly given how many I've seen in the last 6 months. Greenwich roads, for example, are a disgrace in parts.) [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68598875 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-68598875
- torlok 2y agoWe could have better public transport and walkable cities, but instead we're inventing self-driving cars.
- xnx 2y agoSelf-driving cars are public transportation and make cities more walkable.
- cholantesh 2y agoIs this a joke? How does having more cars on the road, with the same capacity as other cars, and which rely on, adapt to and perpetuate the status quo of car-dependent infrastructure correlate with either of these things?
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y agoI think it just demonstrates some new 4WD/suspension technology, that allows it to jump, and to quickly shift the weight from one wheel to another.
- mog_dev 2y agoI cannot wait to jump over speed bump is school areas ! Definitely useful tech for people in a hurry like me
- vertis 2y agoI was thinking more the getaway car of pros
- Hamuko 2y agoI'd be impressed if it managed to jump the speed bumps in school areas. Those are like what, 7 cm to 10 cm in elevation over a long distance?
- jgtrosh 2y agoIn France, « dos d'ânes » (“donkey's backs”) are supposed to be 10cm high, with other measurements we'll defined, but about 80% are way more “violent” as a defensive tool used by municipalities. But that's nothing compared with mexican topes.
- amyames 2y agoMy favorite thing used to be counting the trails of oil from the topes wherever someone had knocked off their oil pan!
- dvh 2y agoWhat are you? An influencer?
- idatum 2y ago"Yangwang – BYD’s luxury division" Luxurious.
- weinzierl 2y agoAs everyone that watched Knight Rider knows, a jumping car solves ALL your problems. Even a heavily armed gang of thugs can easily be defeated by a jumping car without a single drop of blood being shed.
- Propelloni 2y agoHaven't lowriders worked on this for years now? I think they are further concerning angle of attack and elevation but behind the whole "while driving" thing. It's not really my field of expertise.
- figassis 2y agoInsanely cool. But I worry about the physics of this. The moment you jump, you have zero traction. And this only works if you have considerable speed. If the driver/car is unable to fully understand the environment that comes after, like a pedestrian crossing shortly after the obstacle, but far enough away that the car does not detect this before the jump decision, there may be no way to break in time.
- Stevvo 2y agoIt's a gimmick for marketing. No indication it will be a feature on retail vehicles.
- nelsonic 2y agoPre-orders immediately exhausted by criminals. (Awesome tech! Or at least CGI ...)
- maxglute 2y agoTBH with 700k+ employees, the marketting gimmicks to engineer ratio from BYD is lacking.
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- moffkalast 2y agoNeed for Speed absolutely sleeping on this /s
- shalmanese 2y agoAmericans have no idea how far advanced the Chinese car market is. The big feature 2 years ago was car starting to sprout LIDAR bumps but now that feature has become de rigueur enough that car brands need to figure out something new to stand out, hence the big push to advertise their active suspension. Nio's new ET9 is showing off their car doing tricks like bouncing a soccer ball (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Ezjmz63U8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3Ezjmz63U8), driving with a stack of glasses on it's hood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEr_sNp7XLM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEr_sNp7XLM) and syncing the suspension to a movie (https://www.tiktok.com/@autogefuehl/video/7452259991513353504 https://www.tiktok.com/@autogefuehl/video/745225999151335350...). Yangwang is showing it leap the car in the air. At the end of the day though, the more Hertz and more acceleration your active suspension system has, the smoother it can dampen movement inside the cabin and Chinese consumers are already getting very picky about how well specced the active suspension systems are. In another 2 years time, Nio/Yuanyang style active suspension will have trickled out into enough midrange cars that it's no longer an exciting feature and Chinese car brands will figure out the latest new thing to compete. Meanwhile, American car brands will be barely half way through their model cycle refresh and just starting to think about incrementally adding a single feature or two and maybe adding a new curve to the body somewhere.
- drewcoo 2y ago> Americans have no idea how far advanced the Chinese car market is. There's a 100% tariff on Chinese cars. Of course we have no idea.
- Cumpiler69 2y ago>Americans have no idea how far advanced the Chinese car market is. Americans have no reason to care about that. Their legacy car industry is now only a vestigial part of their economy. It's an acceptable casualty when the brunt of their economy is finance, tech and services, plus owning the printer to the world reserve currency and the largest military in the world by a long margin along with large fossil fuel reserves, giving them leverage over China and the Chinese economy in other more important areas while their car industry can coast into irrelevance letting their allies Japan, Korea, Germany race to the bottom in selling American consumer cheap cars in exchange for those sweet USD. They'll be fine. On the other hand, countries like Germany where the legacy ICE auto sector is a large slice of the economy and don't have energy independence, don't issue the world reserve currency, don't have a strong military, don't have a leading finance and tech sector, but have a ballooning welfare deficit and unions fighting against the inevitable change to EV, will be less fine and more at the mercy of bullying from world powers along with a reduction in standard of living of their workers/citizens.
- qwertox 2y agoProbably got the "inspiration" from some European companies. Mercedes GLE 450 4Matic bouncing itself out of sand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMGqrA6Ssg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRMGqrA6Ssg