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Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by slaw »

rbanffy wrote: post #359
slaw wrote: post #301

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I LOL'ed. Saab doesn't have any expertise to build modern aircraft.

An aircraft doesn’t need to be modern - it needs to shot down the other before it gets shot down. And, as we have seen with cheap drones, all that money spent on making great stealth aircraft has not stopped Iran from blocking access to 20% of the world’s supply of crude. So, how effective are your fifth generation fighters based on your nuclear carriers again?

> An aircraft doesn’t need to be modern - it needs to shot down the other before it gets shot down.

Frontal RCS of the Gripen C/D between 0.1 m2 and 1.5 m2

Frontal Radar Cross-Section (RCS) of the F-35 roughly between 0.001 m2 and 0.005 m2

Gripen is an old airframe useless in modern combat. It will be shot down from far away.

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by tibbydudeza »

tw1984 wrote: post #263
Toutouxc wrote: post #118

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I have a Chinese EV too, an MG4 built by SAIC. It’s a really cheap car, significantly cheaper than its non-Chinese counterparts like the VW ID.3 or (roughly) a Hyundai Kona. The factory rust protection was maybe a bit on the lighter side, but everything else on it looks completely normal. The drivetrain is simple (no heat exchange mechanism between battery coolant and motor coolant, a slightly whiny motor), but also…

> VW ID.3 VW ID.3 is designed by a Chinese team in China, built in Shanghai backed entirely by the Chinese ecosystem. You need to be totally blind to consider vw being able to design & produce such a car on its own. let's be straight - the software in the car is not something Germany can build on its own. That 20 years gap won't be filled overnight.

That would be the case for the new China only Audi E5/E7X - they are just using the word AUDI on the car and not the iconic 4 rings.

It is made by SAIC using their factory and EV platform - it was just cheaper to outsource it and meet the deadlines and pricing.

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by chadgpt3 »

km3r wrote: post #334
chadgpt3 wrote: post #308

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Lots of countries are like that though. America has an unusually free system where anyone can do anything for better or worse, but Walmart failed in Germany by ignoring all the local processes like employee protections. (But I hear Aldi is taking over the UK!)

Employee protections aren't hostile, blocking Facebook while exporting Tiktok is a hostile trade imbalance.

The Tiktok we get that's full of slop isn't allowed in China either. China has a completely different set of content on its TikTok. Trade imbalance is a skill issue and within the country they compete fairly.

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Post by stavros »

veza wrote: post #200

Oh, I love the 2 sides of HN... Here everybody's ready to buy a BYD and even move to China, due to the sheer quality of the product (for the money) and the integrity of the people, totally forgetting about the 'social credit system' and the data that these cars might be sending or being exposed to having the car remotely disabled. Not to mention the repairability... Just a few days ago there was a popular post taking…

If you don't want the car to be sending data, you can remove the SIM from under the armrest.

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Post by King-Aaron »

fooo1882992 wrote: post #215
dakolli wrote: post #104

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I'd rather own Chinese everything over American. Everything America makes is slop and corners are cut for profits so the owners of companies can own their third home and maybe a yacht. The truth is Chinese engineering quality exceeds the West in almost every domain at this point. I'd move there given the opportunity, the business owners of America are willing to poison and put the lives of their fellow citizens at ri…

Imagine glazing the country where a dozen companies were caught mixing melamine into baby formula, hospitalizing 50,000 and killing 6. This happened in 2008 by the way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_Chinese_milk_scandal

The US is systematically winding back a plethora of health/safety regulations that prevent this sort of stuff.

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Post by HerbManic »

a96 wrote: post #142
HerbManic wrote: post #115

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I am still amazed that IBM is pushing their POWER processors forwards for things like their System Z Mainframes. From what I have heard they are still really fast with I/O and general shifting of data but I'm not sure how much better than is than the alternatives. Wouldn't be surprised if that finally gets sunset in the next few years.

POWER still exists? That's kind of neat. I had a POWER 1 rs6k way back. Almost wish I'd had room to keep it just as a sort of museum piece. The processor was several chips on one or two large PCBs IIRC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER1 IRC.

I know, they are up to the POWER 11 spec now. It is the definition of a brilliant architecture that was simply out run by others (x86) that could push their mediocre setups far better than they could.

Re: CT scans of BYD car parts

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Post by HerbManic »

don_esteban wrote: post #152
HerbManic wrote: post #110

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I agree with the quality of some of the stuff coming out of China but when it comes to poisons and risking the lives of citizens, I have some bad news for you. That is how they undercut so heavily by foregoing those standards.

In China, they hang those that are responsible. In US, they get slap on their hand.

Ha, yeah that is a fair point.

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Post by yakbarber »

dangus wrote: post #278
halapro wrote: post #180

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Protectionism by who? By definition protectionism cannot kill your own country's car industry.

I’m not sure why you think protectionism (by the local government) can’t kill an industry. It happened to American steel as well: the American steel industry was “protected” while foreign steel companies innovated their production processes. The timeline goes like this: 1. Government gets pressured by industry to protect domestic industry from outside competition 2. Domestic industry stagnates as it has no reason to…

yes

and it's not just the end product, it's the process. China has built almost entirely automated car factories. They're already 10+ years ahead of what's happening in the US/Europe.

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Post by aidenn0 »

spockz wrote: post #150
aidenn0 wrote: post #66

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And yet my Hyundai key fob, despite being the largest fob I've ever seen doesn't do this :/

Yes sadly the Hyundai and Kia key fobs of EVs (at least EV9) don’t have the mechanical backup key in the fob anymore. So you need to carry it on your keychain. Don’t leave it in your trunk. If the 12V battery does out you won’t be able to get into the car.

I have a Kona EV, so you can add that as a data-point.

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Post by lostlogin »

mesrik wrote: post #271
lostlogin wrote: post #231

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> How so, not last a decade? Maybe it’s me then. We just don’t get that long out of them. We have tried Fisher and Paykel and Samsung. Never had more than and year warranty either. They do run at least once a day often more, but that’s not enough to explain it.

I understand that while small kids or baby then there is lot of laundry. But I've heard some people wash same fav clothes every day just to be able to use them fresh clean every day. Gosh, but there are other ways to solve that issue like having bit more of fav clothes, so that you dont' have to wash same cloth every day but instead was a bunch of them end of week. Need white shirt every day at work, buy at least 10…

I used to do this. Commuting by bike means gross damp sweaty clothes.

They get permanently smelly if not washed promptly.

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