BYD’s $10,000 EV blows a tire at nearly 90 mph — Watch what happens(electrek.co)
16 pointsby cisc5 hours ago6 comments
  • 1970-01-015 hours ago
    The headline is the story: A $10000 price tag for a ~200mi EV is more impressive than the blown tire story.
  • rogerrogerr5 hours ago
    Front tire just pulls one way or another; you don’t even have to be a decent driver to deal with it.

    Rear tire would be more impressive, it’ll try to fishtail.

    • cucumber37328423 hours ago
      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.
  • BugsJustFindMe5 hours ago
    It slows to a stop.
  • tamimio3 hours ago
    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.
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  • hungryhobbit5 hours ago
    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.

    • shirro3 hours ago
      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.
    • WheatMillington4 hours ago
      You can't drive a BYD because your government tariffs them to hell. I can drive one in my country, and their safety record is great.
    • ethanbezz4 hours ago
      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.
    • its-summertime2 hours ago
      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.
    • eigenspace5 hours ago
      1 in 200 apartments in the building? You realize that the USA is one of the only car markets that has closed itself off to chinese cars, right?

      BYD is the number 1 EV brand in the world currently by sales.

    • 233mhz4 hours ago
      Wait until your learn there is like a whole world outside of the US
    • 4ndrewl4 hours ago
      They conform to EU and UK safety standards (there are enough of them on the roads here to demonstrate that).

      Are US safety standards that much higher - seems like a regulatory nightmare over there?

      /s