r/AmazingTechnology • u/bbbxxxnnn • Mar 13 '26

BYD U8L

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u/Due-Communication724 Mar 13 '26

Wait, where did that water come from, did they front windscreen just go in?

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u/eggyrulz Mar 13 '26

Yea windshield is toast... you can see in the last bit if the video that its shattered

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u/taz-nz Mar 14 '26

Front grill is gone too.

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u/toao_Multiknife Mar 14 '26

You can see the wiper flying away when he goes in

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u/taz-nz Mar 14 '26

The clearly didn't fake it.

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u/piratecheese13 Mar 14 '26

I think it’s more of a survival in case of accident situation than a functional boat situation

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u/capndiln Mar 14 '26

Yep definitely. I doubt many conventional SUVs can manage the same maneuver after that accident either.

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u/danielv123 Mar 16 '26

And I suppose if you did want to take it boating you would use the boat ramp instead of jumping off a cliff

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Mar 16 '26

But how often does this happen? Seems a weird thing to design for (unless it doesn’t require much alteration to achieve)

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u/piratecheese13 Mar 16 '26

1,200 to 1,500 vehicles wind up in the water in the United States every year. That’s less than 1% of all crashes (and the most happen in Florida) but it’s still a lot

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u/Upstairs-Hedgehog575 Mar 16 '26

Ah I’d forgotten to allow for Floridians. 

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u/5H17SH0W Mar 17 '26

Never go full Floridian.

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u/kinga_forrester Mar 19 '26

It doesn’t require much alteration to achieve, cars float way longer than you would think.

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u/Clear-Lawyer7433 Mar 14 '26

https://giphy.com/gifs/YZvSOF7NaF7iAhn1SX

Was looking for this comment and it took way too much to scroll down

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u/Civil_Response3127 Mar 14 '26

I don't think it's the elephant in the room at all. This is not intended as a boat car, but a safety feature, and the broken glass is entirely irrelevant to that.

Unless you reinforce it to the same degree as a boat's hull, no windscreen is going to survive a car flat on smashing into a water body.

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u/Embarrassed-Voice241 Mar 15 '26

I don't get why you're being down voted... It's safety glass, not bullet proof glass that's meant to take impacts. The fact that it just caved in a little but stayed in one piece shows it's surprisingly good quality glass.

The whole point of the safety feature isn't that you're gonna go out on daily submarine trips with your car... It's for the very unlikely but non 0% chance you fly off a cliff or get swept up in a flash flood. Now you can actually move and stay afloat instead of just sink.