Rear isn't that big a deal. Very few mechanical failures are a big deal unless you react by adding massive random steering inputs which oddly is the behavior every internet comment section wants to project on everyone. Your box on wheels is gonna obey newtonian physics and keep doing what it was doing for the most part.
Does it matter? It's like saying "we fireproofed 1 of 200 apartments in a building" ... well great, but you still can't sell that building until you fireproof the other 199.
Same issue here: no one in America can even buy these things (practically-speaking), let alone drive them legally in US streets until China starts building them to conform to US safety standards.
Until that happens, we're just seeing nifty demos of impressively cheap cars ... that are also (subtly) very dangerous.
Perhaps they're just 'nifty demos' in the eyes of the US market, but in countries like Australia, where BYD is already the 2nd best selling car brand, they are very much not that.
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Friday ordered General Motors to pay a record $4.9 billion in damages to two women and four children who were trapped and burned when the gas tank of their 1979 Chevrolet Malibu exploded after a rear-end collision on Christmas Eve six years ago.
US safety standards are _different_. Car standards are particularly messy in that a car that's road-legal in the EU probably isn't in the US and vice versa. Mostly small stuff; for instance they'll have different side mirrors.
Producing a version of these cars for US standards likely would not be difficult (every car manufacturer has to deal with about four standards regimes); it's just that they're no reason to do so currently.
BYD is currently the second biggest selling vehicle manufacturer (not just EV) in Australia after Toyota and ahead of Ford. It is also the only one increasing sales in the top three. All the vehicles sold here meet our strict design rules. There are some notable US vehicles that even with substantial engineering modifications probably couldn't be made compliant with our safety regulations.
I suspect that the video originally posted on Weibo, the video in which all the text is in Chinese, might not be aimed at Americans. I think they are targeting a different market with this. Perhaps China.
Not realistic, a tire blow is not the same as tire air out, within seconds, the rubber part is gone and you are left on the rim only, it’s when the real problem starts.
Once had rear tire failure at 140-130kmh. After I realized the origin of this weird noise and of imprecise steering, then stopped the vehicle fully, the tire was shredded. Rim remained undamaged luckily.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 28.4 ms ] threadRear tire would be more impressive, it’ll try to fishtail.
Same issue here: no one in America can even buy these things (practically-speaking), let alone drive them legally in US streets until China starts building them to conform to US safety standards.
Until that happens, we're just seeing nifty demos of impressively cheap cars ... that are also (subtly) very dangerous.
Are US safety standards that much higher - seems like a regulatory nightmare over there?
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https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jul-10-mn-54658...
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury on Friday ordered General Motors to pay a record $4.9 billion in damages to two women and four children who were trapped and burned when the gas tank of their 1979 Chevrolet Malibu exploded after a rear-end collision on Christmas Eve six years ago.
Producing a version of these cars for US standards likely would not be difficult (every car manufacturer has to deal with about four standards regimes); it's just that they're no reason to do so currently.