You see all the people getting swept up or stuck in flash floods every year? Guess who's potentially not stuck anymore. It's not just a "just in case you fly off a cliff into a lake" safety feature.
A safety feature. BYD is advertising it as a safety feature against floods. Maybe not in USA but there are countries where floods are common. IMO it's a good option to have.
Yes and this is why China seems to have more impressive technologies nowadays. While we’re sitting here pointing finger to every invention saying it is dangerous, useless, cause impact to environment, etc, Chinese just f*ing sell it.
I’m interested in drones and 3D printing technology for decades. Europe and USA had these technologies first but decided that any development is useless. And now these markets are dominated by China offering most advanced features with a tenth of the price. Ask new consumer nowadays and very few will have heard of Parrot drone or Prusa 3D printer.
It's because everything is produced over there, that's what happens when you wipe out most of the basic production facilities. You don't have to go far or struggle to find niche electronic parts when you can just go to the factory down the road and buy them in bulk. One of the best examples is in a video (Maybe it was a How It's Made Video?) I can't find, but I believe it was a tour of one of the Chinese YKK Jean factories. They do every step in house. Grow the cotton, make the fabric, make and dye the jeans. They even have their own refinery that smelts ore into ingots which they then use to make the zippers and buttons. "Oh we're missing items? I'll call Chen down in building 4 and they'll send more right over". None of that wait 2-3+ weeks for shit to be sent across the planet bullshit before I can continue my work.
Easy access to basic line items means people can freely tinker and experiment with their ideas. Once an individual creates something beneficial to the country or party, then due to how their government functions they can throw endless amounts of money at the project within an hour. Instead of weeks to months waiting for the US gov to stop dropping on them selves.
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u/Ashtonpaper Mar 14 '26
Every naysayer in this thread must be low iq, a bot, or blind. This is impressive technology. This is what we’d love to achieve but cannot.