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BYD’s $10,000 EV blows a tire at nearly 90 mph — Watch what happens

7 points • by cisc • today at 9:53 PM • 6 comments • view on HN

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hungryhobbit • today at 10:27 PM

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.

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1970-01-01 • today at 10:25 PM

The headline is the story: A $10000 price tag for a ~200mi EV is more impressive than the blown tire story.

rogerrogerr • today at 10:12 PM

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.

BugsJustFindMe • today at 10:07 PM

It slows to a stop.

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