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Why We Are Here => Hardware & Technology => Topic started by: rcjordan on January 10, 2025, 05:03:31 PM

Title: BYD's Yangwang U9 jumps over spike strip while self-driving in a crazy test
Post by: rcjordan on January 10, 2025, 05:03:31 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hW6lFowulFw

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BYD CEO ALL NEW $4,999 Car SHOCKS The Entire EV Industry - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLOirtjFb6s
Title: Re: BYD's Yangwang U9 jumps over spike strip while self-driving in a crazy test
Post by: Brad on January 10, 2025, 06:00:08 PM
>$4,999 Car

Good video.  This is what has been bugging me, ICE or EV, where have all the affordable vehicles gone?  There are darn few Pinto's, Gremlin's or Vega's anymore.  So BYD focusing on affordable EV's seems filled with win.
Title: Re: BYD's Yangwang U9 jumps over spike strip while self-driving in a crazy test
Post by: ergophobe on January 11, 2025, 08:32:01 PM
That second video is a pastiche of clips from many sources (and sounds like it is read by an AI) so I'm not sure the clip at 1:34 is a BYD plant, but this blew my mind:

Title: Re: BYD's Yangwang U9 jumps over spike strip while self-driving in a crazy test
Post by: ergophobe on January 11, 2025, 08:32:21 PM
I kept looking and looking, but I couldn't find the dog.
Title: Re: BYD's Yangwang U9 jumps over spike strip while self-driving in a crazy test
Post by: rcjordan on January 11, 2025, 10:36:38 PM
>couldn't find the dog.

hhh.
Title: Re: BYD's Yangwang U9 jumps over spike strip while self-driving in a crazy test
Post by: ergophobe on January 12, 2025, 01:42:34 AM
> hhh

I had a minor concern that reference would be too oblique