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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 nirui »

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.

Ah... 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-...

[Link 2]: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/12/business/china-jack-ma-we...

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

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Post by atoav »

rmbyrro wrote: post #38
atoav wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can 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.

"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

Yeah, 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.

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

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Post by drewcoo »

shalmanese wrote: post #48

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=X3…

> 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.

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

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Post by Cumpiler69 »

vertis wrote: post #29
Cumpiler69 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

BYD isn't in charge of road infrastructure to be able to fix it. That's the government's job.

What's the connection to Xiaomi here? (honest question)

Sorry my bad, I meant BYD, I was thinking of the other Xiaomi supercar.

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

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Post by rmbyrro »

atoav wrote: post #52
rmbyrro wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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

Yeah, 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 wor…

> 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?

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

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Post by Propelloni »

weinzierl wrote: post #28

As 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.

Haven'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.

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

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Post by hawski »

nirui wrote: post #24
__m wrote: post #4

I 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.

> 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

When 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?

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

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Post by Cumpiler69 »

shalmanese wrote: post #48

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=X3…

>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.

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

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Post by atoav »

rmbyrro wrote: post #55
atoav wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, 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 wor…

> 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?

No, 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.

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

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Post by xnx »

torlok wrote: post #15
imp0cat wrote: post #9

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

We could have better public transport and walkable cities, but instead we're inventing self-driving cars.

Self-driving cars are public transportation and make cities more walkable.
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