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BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes

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Re: BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes

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Post by Stevvo »

figassis wrote: post #37

Insanely 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.

It's a gimmick for marketing. No indication it will be a feature on retail vehicles.

Re: BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes

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Post by zimpenfish »

lm28469 wrote: post #14
imp0cat wrote: post #9

They could fix potholes, but instead decided to make their cars jump? Very creative. :)

"they", as if we didn't have potholes in the us/eu.

The 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

Re: BYD's electric supercar jumps over potholes and spikes

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Post by bildung »

pjc50 wrote: post #31
nirui wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

Thinking of Jack Ma. You don't want to get too prominent in China, billionaires there aren't above the police.

Well 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.).

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Post by shalmanese »

Americans 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), driving with a stack of glasses on it's hood (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEr_sNp7XLM) and syncing the suspension to a movie (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.

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