Chinese cars

[b0rn2sk8]

You’ve probably got a BYD battery in the device you have in your pocket.

 

[SkyTerran]

posted this before in ev thread ...but when you look at priorities of lucrative chinese consumers, fun driving experience isn't listed
... some mnc companies clearly aligning their cars with their (or marketting teams) 'needs'

(key - autonomous driving, multi national companies)

Chinese customers seem to understand that a car is a 2 ton killing machine and not a toy to have fun with.

 

[Jonnycoupe]

Bless. Not many of you know what Chinese city (where the money is) driving is like.

 

[dlockers]

Did anyone see the bigwang or whatever it's called floating down a flooded road? Thing behaved like a boat with decent buoyancy lol

 

[Diddums]

Did anyone see the bigwang or whatever it's called floating down a flooded road? Thing behaved like a boat with decent buoyancy lol

It's one of its USPs:

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Bless. Not many of you know what Chinese city (where the money is) driving is like.

I spent two weeks in Beijing and two weeks in Kochi in 2016.

For all the apparent chaos on Indian roads, I only saw one very minor collision despite having a two hour commute along insanely busy roads. In Beijing, I travelled 5 stops on the metro with a 500 metres walk either end and saw 3-4 serious multi vehicle crashes. There might have been more, but most of my attention as a pedestrian was watching out for the swarms of nearly silent electric tricycles which were allowed to use part of the pavement.

 

[Conscript]

"...when the vehicle accidentally enters a deepwater area...".

"Accidentally".

 

[Jonnycoupe]

I spent two weeks in Beijing and two weeks in Kochi in 2016.

For all the apparent chaos on Indian roads, I only saw one very minor collision despite having a two hour commute along insanely busy roads. In Beijing, I travelled 5 stops on the metro with a 500 metres walk either end and saw 3-4 serious multi vehicle crashes. There might have been more, but most of my attention as a pedestrian was watching out for the swarms of nearly silent electric tricycles which were allowed to use part of the pavement.

Yeah and they drive with binary throttles. Hence driving dynamics feature low

 

[Nasher]

I wonder how many people will test it out in salt water

 

[CaptainRAVE]

posted this before in ev thread ...but when you look at priorities of lucrative chinese consumers, fun driving experience isn't listed
... some mnc companies clearly aligning their cars with their (or marketting teams) 'needs'

(key - autonomous driving, multi national companies)

The driving world has changed. Congested roads, poor quality roads, an increase of the daily grind, more and more people seem less focussed on driving for fun now. I don’t even see many fun cars around, just roads full of SUVs. It’s getting increasingly costly too.

 

[Terminal_Boy]

Yeah and they drive with binary throttles. Hence driving dynamics feature low

Neither country’s traffic was a scary as the trips between airport and hotel in Moscow in 2016. Absolute “I must pass everyone else and I don’t care who dies” mentality, though everyone gives way to blacked out Merc SUVs with blue lights on them.

 

[Nasher]

Neither country’s traffic was a scary as the trips between airport and hotel in Moscow in 2016. Absolute “I must pass everyone else and I don’t care who dies” mentality, though everyone gives way to blacked out Merc SUVs with blue lights on them.

Yea, otherwise you get gulaged. Or have a window accident.

 

[b0rn2sk8]

The driving world has changed. Congested roads, poor quality roads, an increase of the daily grind, more and more people seem less focussed on driving for fun now. I don’t even see many fun cars around, just roads full of SUVs. It’s getting increasingly costly too.

I’m not sure a material number of people ever drove ‘for fun’.

It’s always been a hobby enjoyed by the few, not the many. For everyone else the car has only ever mean a means to get from A to B.