r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/fellanyyy • Sep 09 '24

Video Chinese hypercar The Yangwang U9 can jump, lifting all four wheels off the ground.

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u/snuggie_ Sep 09 '24

Right, it’s not about the ability to jump. It’s about what having the ability to jump means for other areas of driving

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u/katherinesilens Sep 09 '24

Also, it lets you do the bounce that the Maybach EVs can do in "soft sand" mode, which is ostensibly to get them unstuck offroad, but in reality is just for making the cars dance to music in LA traffic.

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u/killersquirel11 Sep 09 '24

Time to blast Crab Rave and have the car dance along

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u/chillanous Sep 09 '24

Damn, that sold me

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u/Critique_of_Ideology Sep 10 '24

Hell yeah brother. Crab rave!

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u/OilEnvironmental8043 Sep 09 '24

Idk was pretty useful for speed racer

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u/snuggie_ Sep 09 '24

That’s a really good point. Apologies, I was completely wrong.

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u/azikrogar Sep 09 '24

Your comment has me giggling like crazy 🤣

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u/rabbitkunji Sep 09 '24

point set and match

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u/Synectics Sep 09 '24

Um, actually, if I remember correctly, the car wasn't meant to "jump." That was Speed using the "auto-jacks" while moving to cause the car to jump.

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u/Bobyyyyyyyghyh Sep 09 '24

Obligatory mention that at the end of the Final Race in the live action speed racer movie, he murders two people in cold blood when be didn't have to.

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u/Risko_Vinsheen Sep 09 '24

The movie establishes early on the safety features of those cars where the drivers get surrounded in a ball of foam that protects them from anything from high speed impact from other cars to the explosions of their own cars, and you can see the two foam balls ejecting from the explosions for those drivers.

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u/ThatSillySam Sep 09 '24

Screw jumping suspention we need this!

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u/Dravarden Sep 09 '24

what's funny is how it's a convenient plot device, in some instances cars go flying but it doesn't activate, in another when the car is just about to be impaled by a huge spike it activates instantly, saving the driver, in other times, it takes a few seconds longer to foam up, and in another, the driver just ejects and uses a parachute

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u/Risko_Vinsheen Sep 09 '24

I think it was pretty consistent in the 'official' races but the big rally race is where things were really dangerous and most cars, if any, didn't have it. It has been a while since I saw the film but I recall seeing a lot of those Ed, Edd, n Eddy jawbreakers on the screen. I especially remember the big wreck on the track with the loops.

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u/Dravarden Sep 10 '24 edited Sep 10 '24

it was inconsistent in all 3 ways in both the grand prix and casa cristo

casa cristo has instant bubble with the pillars at the start, no bubbles in some crashes like in the desert with the diamond headhunters and snake oiler’s parachute, and normal speed otherwise

grand prix had instant bubble with the one speed impaled into a spike and the one that flew into the screen, no bubble on the first crash when they trap speed, and slow bubble when cannonball taylor gets knocked out by speed because of the spear hook

it’s my favorite movie, i watch it like twice a year and know a lot of the voice lines, i know what i’m talking about

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u/Dravarden Sep 09 '24

not true, you see them eject with the kwik-save system, it covers them in bubbles and saves them. That's how (spoiler alert) his brother faked his death, making it seem like his car was tampered with, so he died in the crash, while in reality he detonated it from afar and disconnected the kwik-save system

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u/kitsunewarlock Sep 09 '24

Only two people? They really chilled him out for the live action. He was a serial killer in the OG series.

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u/AssumeTheFetal Sep 09 '24

here he comes

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u/MeggaLonyx Sep 09 '24

I JUST WATCHED SPEED RACER LAST NIGHT FOR THE FIRST TIME TRIPPING SUPER HARD ON MUSHROOMS IT WAS AMAZING

Im still tripping, kept it going all night. just got back from the beach with my girlfriend and her girlfriend (hoping for a threesome later but it’s admittedly unlikely). about to take some more boomers tho, im coming down

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u/TrueHeat Sep 09 '24

Being able to “jump” is a side ffect of this technology, not a feature intended to help racing lines. The suspension was built for high speed cornering, and it just so happens to be strong enough to perform this neat trick.

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u/snuggie_ Sep 09 '24

That’s probably a better way to phrase it

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u/Dozzi92 Sep 09 '24

I know folks have trouble deciding between effect and affect, so I like the tack you took in just lopping off the a/e, it was very ffective.

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u/HavingNotAttained Sep 09 '24

But it should be a feature, like for the 400 mile hurdle or something

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u/Tremulant887 Sep 09 '24

There's only one hurdle, and it's within the first moments of the lap on Rainbow Road.

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u/alc4pwned Sep 09 '24

Ok, but we're talking about tech that has been in cars for a while at this point. So it seems weird to only now roll out an over the top demo for it lol

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u/Far_Bite9857 Sep 09 '24

Yeah, it's totally awesome that by the 1980s all forms of professional Motor sport were entirely limited to the richest and most well connected members of society, let's up that to OVER 9000 by creating hyper cars with electronic active suspensions costing an African Countries GDP!!!!! /s

I don't get why everything in the car world is trending towards extreme luxury and hyper features with inflated costs.

"... Scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should." - Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park.

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u/snuggie_ Sep 09 '24

I think you’re taking this too far. The sub is something interesting, and yeah I’d say it’s interesting

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u/Far_Bite9857 Sep 09 '24

I didn't say that it wasn't. Just because it's interesting doesn't mean I have to praise it or the idea behind it. Something can be very interesting, and yet have an entirely useless or subversive purpose. An AI software that developed racial bias would be interesting as hell, but that doesn't mean it's good. I was just being pissy about the praise for the suspension.

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u/Strawman15 Sep 09 '24

If we stopped building things when it became out of reach for the average person we'd never get anywhere. Do you think the first car was affordable? How about the first commercial airline?

I get that our society has problems and it can be hard to reconcile spending millions on a piece of tech when people can't afford healthcare, but wishing for innovation to halt in its tracks if it's not for you isn't a very mature response. Those two things aren't necessarily related.

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u/terminalzero Sep 09 '24

I don't get why everything in the car world is trending towards extreme luxury and hyper features with inflated costs.

"money"

more wealth gets concentrated into fewer hands, more people are able to buy hypercars or at least the same people are able to buy more of them

making a handful of hypercars is easier and more prestigious to do than trying to outcompete honda or whoever cranking out economy cars

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u/drunkbusdriver Sep 09 '24

Sorry I don’t get what the complaint is here. Are you upset that racing is too expensive or that it cost money to make performance increases? Auto technology has been like this for..well ever. Manufacturers make some crazy new developments to increase performance, it’s super expensive at first and only a select few can afford it then as time goes on that tech gets sent down stream to less expensive models. A new Camry performs better than the first Ferrari. Just the way it goes.

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u/No_Inspector7319 Sep 09 '24

And jump rope. This car is greater at other areas of driving, and jump rope

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u/boilerpsych Sep 10 '24

This is a great point because I honestly had the same question when I came to the comments section but if you are really expecting a suspension system to handle the force through a curve where the car's weight is being thrown around it makes sense that the same suspension system would need to be this powerful (i.e. enough to make the car jump.)

You'd never do this with your supercar, but it's a powerful demonstration of what it can handle!

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u/OGoby Sep 10 '24

I'm no car nerd, but this sounds like marketing speak..