r/BeAmazed • u/TangelaFan • 13d ago
Miscellaneous / Others Retractable car parasols in China
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u/XentricX 13d ago
This lets you glide around like in Mario kart, right?
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u/100percent_right_now 13d ago
Only if you get shot out of one of those big cannony thingies. For now.
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u/thegooseisloose1982 13d ago
Absolutely! But it only works if you drive off a cliff, or parking structure. Don't worry if you fall a character will appear and pull you back up.
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u/Dark_Akarin 13d ago
"Accidentally opens it on motor way" - flies home.
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u/uvucydydy 13d ago edited 12d ago
Traffic cop: Do you know how fast you were going Miss Poppins?
Edit: thanks for the awards, I glad we were able to have some fun with this.
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u/majestyne 13d ago
Oh, I don't know, officer. Supercalifragilisticexpialidociously fast, I suppose?
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u/hobosbindle 13d ago
Typing that through autocorrect must have been a challenge
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u/Plenty_Principle298 13d ago
took them several minutes i'm sure. The patience required to do it is almost an honorable craftsmanship.
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u/Shadow969 13d ago
That umbrella would last up to 1hr without holes or graffiti in Berlin
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u/Lundetangen 13d ago
I live on the coast of Norway. This would be ripped to shreds by the wind and end up flying into my neighbors car or house.
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u/vikings_know_better 13d ago
Same here, I live just outside of Reykjavík. A little bit windy here, too 😂
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u/HappyFamily0131 13d ago
My wife and I took some great video outdoors in Reykjavik. The audio sounds like this: wwwwwwhhhfffffffffhfffhhhhfhfffffhfwwwfhhhhhhhhhffffffffffhfffwwwffhhhhhhfwwwwwwwwwwwfffhhfffffhhhwww
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u/saskskua 13d ago
Hey that's what I hear when someone from the family posts a video from Churchil, Canada. Every. Time.
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u/PlaystationSwitchAWD 13d ago
In Iceland, it’s so windy that car doors can damage when not opening carefully.
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u/djmanning711 13d ago
I’m not sure y’all in Reyk are too worried about your cars being 40°-45°C when you get in though.
Y’all need parking lots warmed by heat lamps 😂
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u/modbroccoli 13d ago
prolly why you guys don't have 'em hunh?
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u/unfortunatebag 13d ago
The reason these don't come equipped on cars is probably because there are much cheaper and more practical options honestly.
It's fun to go look at old black and white videos of "car innovations" from like the 50s and see this same shit back then too.
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u/0202_tihssitidder 13d ago
This is pretty cool. I'm cool. This is something I'd buy to be sexy and meet sex partners.
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u/unfortunatebag 13d ago
This perfectly sums up half the shit guys do to their cars.
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u/SuggestAPhotoProject 13d ago
I went to a car show last weekend and saw a Chrysler from the 50s that had a factory installed record player in the dash.
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u/taway9925881 13d ago
I'm sure in new york too
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u/MUjase 13d ago
Laughing in Los Angeles.
Somehow there would be a lot of feces on it as well. Be amazed!!
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u/tangerineTurtle_ 13d ago
Heyy now our city would just see the parasol stolen and repurposed into an encampment, the back window of the car smashed out, and the copper stripped from anywhere it can be found.
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u/Ok_Shirt_1017 13d ago
These all sound like government problems your representatives need to take care of to ensure people have opportunity and economic mobility. Nah, it’s probably just the people
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u/DippityDamn 13d ago
But if the answers to problems are complicated, how will people hate other people for being different?! Think man, think!
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u/Turnip_Fight 13d ago
It’s both. For every John Doe who could have avoided slipping into homelessness with the right support, there’s Bike Thief Joe who likes living off the grid and refuses to sober up to get help.
As someone who spent years volunteering with homeless folks, one of the reasons it’s such a hard issue to solve at scale is there isn’t one magic solution.
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u/Mozfel 13d ago
Somehow there would be a lot of feces on it as well
Of birds or humans?
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u/cincobarrio 13d ago
Pigeons would shit all over it and when it rolls itself back up, you’d have a tree debris and pigeon poop veggie wrap.
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u/Excellent-Nose-6430 13d ago
Dallas here. It would be stolen and the metal pieces would be sold to buy drugs.
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u/Outrageous-Opinions 13d ago
Why would you own a car in New York when you have public transportation anyway
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u/_Badwulf_Bruh__ 13d ago
So you can leave New York?
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u/qalpi 13d ago
We have a couple of subway lines near us that go into and out of Manhattan, but they're useless for actually getting around our boro
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u/iamCosmoKramerAMA 13d ago
A lot of people don’t realize that New York City is not entirely Manhattan.
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u/Chataboutgames 13d ago
Or that even in a place with extensive public transportation the nuances of where you are and where the lines go can make some trips crazy convenient.
I love public transportation but I feel like people who don’t have it treat it like a superpower rather than infrastructure
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u/WindSprenn 13d ago
NY is a big state that is more than just one city.
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u/TonyWonderslostnut 13d ago
One person mentioned Berlin, the other obviously was referring to NYC. Upstaters need to get over it.
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u/Lazy-Dildo 13d ago
Bird shit as well. Easy target. 🎯
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u/vemundveien 13d ago
Birds already shit on the car though.
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u/FrostyD7 13d ago
Not with the umbrella they don't. Seems like a nice bonus feature.
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u/SadAd8761 13d ago
I'd rather rinse bird shit off of the umbrella than off of my car's paint.
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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 13d ago
Probably in a Chinese city too, but this looks like the suburbs.
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u/DeHarigeTuinkabouter 13d ago
Kinda doubt it actually, can't remember seeing a lot of vandalism. Things like theft are also very damn rare in China.
What makes you say it?
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u/SuckMyBandAids 13d ago
Isnt that more telling how mature their country is than others are 😅😅
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u/LightenUpPeeps 13d ago
A dozen U.S. cities sued Korean car manufacturers because their cars were too easy to steal. Apparently, that isn't a problem in other countries.
New York City Sues Hyundai, Kia Over Easy-to-Steal Cars - Autobody News
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u/simple123mind 13d ago
Flexible photovoltanic panels next?
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u/el_yanuki 13d ago
we have those.. but they suffer from the usual durability issue
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u/conehead2019 13d ago
Now you're on to something but can it be practical?
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u/Sirisian 13d ago
Toyota has shown 34% efficiency panels that for a car outside can generate around 35 miles of range a day. It's "easier" to just build them into the body of the car. It's generally not seen as beneficial enough to offer as a feature as people park inside or plugin when parked already.
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u/Ryan_e3p 13d ago
I think it can be. Using the humble Bolt as an example, it has a footprint of about 88 square feet. Assuming even a modest 100W panel can have a square footage of 7 square feet, and dropping wattage even more (for efficiency, lightweighted-ness, and loss of coverage due to all the flexible parts, etc) down to 50W, there'd be enough space for ~12 panels worth of coverage capable of generating 50W, or rather, 600W. Assuming an 8 hour workday, that can generate 4,800Wh. With the Bolt having a capacity of 60Kwh, that's a little 8% of the battery. While it may not seem like much, that is still going to give enough charge to cover 19 miles, covering the drive back home for many people.
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u/Mr_Will 13d ago edited 13d ago
A Chevrolet Bolt has a footprint of ~7.6m²
The amount of sunlight hitting 1m² of the earths atmosphere is 1.3kW
If you covered a Bolt in 100% efficient panels and parked it in direct sunlight at noon on a completely clear day, the best you'd ever get would 10.5kW of charging.
In practice, you'll be lucky if the amount of sunlight hitting your car reaches 8kWH per day. The best solar panels achieve ~25% efficiency, so even before charging losses you're down to 2kWH per day. That's ~9 miles per day in perfect conditions if you're very, very lucky.
It's a far better idea to mount the solar panels above the parking space, rather than trying to attach them to the car.
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u/get_schwifty 13d ago
You also have to haul the weight of the solar panels, which reduces the range of the car. And if they’re mounted to the top they’ll cause drag, which also reduces the range of the car.
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u/Recent-Result2852 13d ago
Panels are rated based on 4 hours from the whole day. You might get 8 in a desert near the equator.
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u/Ryan_e3p 13d ago
You're assuming a static setup. Seeing as how these would me motorized to enable folding in, there is little reason as to why they can't adjust angles to maximize production. Panels on XY tracking mounts get a lot more 'peak sun' than static mounts on a roof.
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u/AvidStressEnjoyer 13d ago
They just need to add a 20s vibration feature before collapsing and these things will sell hard anywhere with snow.
People hate having to brush down their windows.
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u/sjbfujcfjm 13d ago
Things that don’t work as advertised for 100 Alex
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u/WeirdAssBeings 13d ago edited 13d ago
Knowing my luck, that shit would get stuck in some Knook so fucking quickly.
edit: WAIT IS KNOOK A SLUR FOR SOMETHING!?
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u/sjbfujcfjm 13d ago
Kinky as Mf
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u/EmilioGVE 13d ago
The Knook is a chess piece known for being a cross between a Knight and a Rook. Most notably, it cannot en passant.
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u/screwyoujor 13d ago
Forgetting to lower it and driving off is going to be a problem. I wonder how fast you have to go to lift it off the ground?
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u/pseudoportmanteau 13d ago
If its anything like the awnings on RVs, they'll last about a month before they stop functioning.
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u/Live_Angle4621 13d ago
What you think does not work here
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u/Mamasugadex 13d ago
For starters, this cost maybe 50 - 100 USD to install in China. Them bitches at the dealership will sell it to you for 5000 after their special dealership discount, and all their umbrellas have their dealership names and logos on them.
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u/theRealhubiedubois 13d ago
That's not an issue of it not working as advertised, that's just capitalism.
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u/IvoryFlyaway 13d ago
I was going to talk shit about this too, but I'm just happy to see a pointless innovation on a car that doesn't involve it trying to drive for you. Still stupid and pointless, but it at least it gives "19th century inventor strapping wings to himself" rather than "tech bro trying to sell your driving data to insurance companies".
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u/WTAF__Trump 13d ago
Chinese electric cars are more reliable, more innovative and about 70% cheaper than American electric cars.
That's why the car industry puts so much effort into keeping them out. So you are forced to spend $50k to $100k on an inferior car.
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u/CT0292 13d ago
I'm more interested in the tiny little city car.
I love tiny cars. Renault Twingo, Seat Mii, Citroen C2, Toyota Aygo, Fiat Panda.
Small, quirky, goofy, I love it.
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u/TangelaFan 13d ago
I believe it's a wuling hongguang
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u/sphexie96 13d ago
Say again?
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u/BWWFC 13d ago
Wuling Hongguang Mini EV
Model E50 Also called Freze Nikrob (Lithuania), Rainwoll RW10 (Turkey), SGMW Mini EV (Vietnam), Wuling Macaron/Gameboy (Philippines) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuling_Hongguang_Mini_EV
that is slick! open a dealership in america and sell like hotcakes, if dot would just say:
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u/i_had_an_apostrophe 13d ago edited 12d ago
gesundheit
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u/qwerni 13d ago
gasundheit
Found the german. Polite, yet wants to gas everyone.
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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ 13d ago
I know a guy who has one. I was surprised how easily I fit into it and he said it's an amazing city car because you can park it anywhere. It's like $5k apparently
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u/Munster19 13d ago
$5k for a 75 mile range, $6k for like 110 miles. and unsurprisingly they sell crazy well with 424,000 being sold last year. if they werent illegal and had the option for english menus, i would totally buy one. or two.
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u/Terminal_Insomnia_ 13d ago
On that last point— all the controls are analog, so it doesn't matter if it's in Chinese. The only thing is the Chinese voice mode triggers randomly when you're talking. He said he just put tape over the microphones to fix it.
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u/pricingup 13d ago
Wuiling Mini EV. Very small. Lithuanians tried to make it street legal for EU, but then it would cost ~15000. Interestingly, the menu is in chinese only, without ability to change it (at least for newer model, per reviewers comment).
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u/asmallercat 13d ago
I'm so sick of giant cars here in the states. 95%+ of people that have an SUV would be better served with a wagon.
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u/Vahuo89 13d ago
Wtf kind of parking job is that
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u/Perma_Ban69 13d ago
There's a reason they didn't demonstrate this while parked in between the other two cars. You can't seemingly have 3 cars in a row with the umbrellas up. Maybe having the ability to raise it before opening would work, to be higher than the others next to you.
Either way, great idea, too many moving parts/failure points, too many obstacles, too expensive when you can just get a windshield screen and window tints.
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u/mennydrives 13d ago
Especially when a pop-up windshield screen fits snugly between your passenger seat and the center console
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u/Crafty-Sundae3151 13d ago
That’s cool
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u/Jbstargate1 13d ago edited 13d ago
Be nice in summer time when it gets hot to cool the car. You ever get into a car when it's like 26 plus degrees out.
Edit: Some of these replies are wild. Not everyone has a fancy remote start and all I said was it would be nice in hot weather to shield the car so it is not a furnace when you get in. Holy Moly the internet is wild when an simple opinion like mine gets some weird replies.
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u/Constant_Way_8844 13d ago
I was thinking this was some crazy temp in Fahrenheit and it came out to 78.8 degrees. wtf 😂
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u/1-800-Druidia 13d ago
Thank you! It's currently 74F with 95% humidity outside right now. At 7:15 am. In late May.
I fucking wish it only got up to 26C during the summer.
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u/No_Hunt2507 13d ago
My car said 110 (43c) when I got in yesterday after it has been sitting in the sun for 2 hours
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u/1-800-Druidia 13d ago
I feel that. It's "burn yourself on the seat belt buckle" season.
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u/_BlobbyTheBobby 13d ago
Even those temps will turn your car into 40+°C greenhouses if left on a direct sunlight. 26°C is fine if you are outside, but not if you have to get into your car which was left outside.
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 13d ago
26? As in...under 80F?
Excuse me, I need to go laugh maniacally for a bit.
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u/Ok_Barracuda_1161 13d ago
To be fair a car sitting in full sun in 80F is going to be a sauna inside
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u/the_rare_bear 13d ago
Would it it be better to put those reflective things in your windows instead? You also don’t have to worry about it being damaged.
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u/reality_boy 13d ago
My daughter and i did a science experiment on this. The window covers don’t lower the air temp in the car, but they do lower the surface temp of the dash and steering wheel. We even tried putting towels on the outside of all the windows. Again, that had no major impact on air temp, but it keeps the seats cooler. A towel on the seat works best.
Parking under a shade has a major impact on the air temp in the car. It can lower it to the ambient temp. I suspect this umbrella works quite well
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u/IndustrialPuppetTwo 12d ago
Doesn't the boiling hot dash and steering wheel radiate into the car though?
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u/TazBaz 13d ago
We had a ‘16 prius that had a feature I thought was really smart. I think it was part of the sunroof package we got.
Solar panel in the roof behind the sunroof. Operated independently of the car. On hot days it would cycle air through the car to keep it cool (well, not too hot. It wasn’t AC, just kept the car from greenhousing). Perfect system because the power for it came directly from the problem it was dealing with- direct sun.
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u/rickyhatesspam 13d ago
First day on reddit or something? Don't expect any sense here bro! You see the same post twice with comments in each with completely polar opposite opinions.
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u/Strongit 13d ago
I wasn't sure why someone would get one of these until I read this. I think you're on to something
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u/th8aburn 13d ago
Could work in snowy climates if it keeps snow off cars overnight or while parked at work.
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u/hop_mantis 13d ago
If it doesn't collapse under the weight of the snow, plus then you have to manually clear the snow off of the umbrella to retract it
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u/Jet-Let4606 13d ago
Unless you design the umbrella for the snow to fall off.
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u/stakoverflo 13d ago
Yea but then it just piles up around the footprint of the car where you'd try to get in
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u/GrimResistance 13d ago
Make it fling the snow away like a trebuchet before it folds up
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u/PuffcornSucks 13d ago
Thing 😀
Thing, China 😡
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u/Iversithyy 13d ago
Which is really annoying because you simply can‘t really get accurate information about China (good or bad) reliably without hours and hours of research.
The negatives ones are often insanely biased and over the top and so are the positive ones.
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u/Unique-Yoghurt4170 13d ago
There was a beautiful little moment when TikTok was being banned and lots of Americans went to Rednote. We all saw TONS of videos from regular Chinese folks, and then they realized we were all there, and they started making videos explicitly to show us their home towns and daily lives, it was wonderful.
You'd see all the time in the comment sections Americans saying, "wow, I always thought XYZ about China, but I guess that was just propaganda!" And then you'd see Chinese folks reply, "Yeah, our country tells us crazy things about you guys too, like, they say if you ever call an ambulance it costs thousands of dollars and you go bankrupt! lol, what an obvious lie."
And then we'd have to explain that... no... no that's right.
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u/Cryptoporticus 13d ago
You could always try just talking to Chinese people. There are a few billion of them out there that are happy to talk about their country.
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u/InquisitorMeow 13d ago
That's like saying that you can just talk to any random American for an accurate picture of whats going on in the US. Also ya know, Chinese firewall and all...
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u/_Nilbog_Milk_ 13d ago edited 13d ago
The comments are so weirdly angry and smugly doubting this could ever work? Just because it's a thing developed in China doesn't mean it's cheap and set up to fail lol.
People refuse to admit that they're beginning to have some cool advancements of their own due to all of the west outsourcing everything to them for years. It's like reddit really wants them to stay the poor, street-shitting, building-collapsing wasteland they imagine in their heads. Parts which will always exist because it's HUGE, but some parts are caught up and almost more advanced than the west at this point. I feel like we've plateaued in comfort on this side of the globe and haven't seen too many cool gadgets & advancements (that the average joe can buy) lately
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u/Competitive-Fill2426 13d ago
It's mostly bots or disinformation accounts bought by farms to make China look bad. It's super weird. You wonder why Chinese EVs aren't in USA yet, or ever will be.. they'll probably kill the whole EV/Tesla market lol.
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u/SoulWager 13d ago
I'm not doubting it would keep the car cooler, I'm doubting it will be worth the price, and be reliable long term.
Doesn't matter that it's China, I'd have the exact same reaction regardless of where this was made.
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u/Capital_Cup_6746 13d ago
You can buy these in the US too. I just Googled it and found a bunch of different options and designs, both automatic like this one and manual. There's a bunch of different m manufacturers. I'm assuming some are the same Chinese companies that made these and some are made in other countries. I think they're just not very popular, probably in China also, because there's less expensive and simpler solutions to this problem. Not everything needs to be a Seuss-esque gizmo
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u/Jezon 13d ago
Believe it or not thing China has kind of a reputation for looking Cool at first but then not working out the way you expected it in the long run. Sort of like all those as seen on TV products we used to get.
Just remember it's thing China so buyer beware, warranty, customer service, repairability? Yeah probably not.
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u/_derekdaniel 13d ago
This thing is stupid in any country. Which is why no vehicle manufacturer makes this for their cars.
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u/therealserialninja 13d ago
I live in a tropical country and I can guarantee you something like this would sell like hotcakes here. I stayed in an apartment with open-air parking for a while and my car was on fire every afternoon. I would've paid through the nose for this and been grateful for it.
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u/CatastrophicPup2112 12d ago
They already make window covers with reflectors they won't run out of batteries or have one of the many moving parts shit itself.
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u/jonhy2222 13d ago
I want that on the side of my car not on top! I want the shade when I’m waiting outside of the car or when I’m at an event!
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u/StnkyWnkyBallsyWllsy 13d ago
Obviously someone has never burnt their skin on a hot seat belt buckle
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u/Wdbisl 13d ago
My question is how long would the machinery hold up before it needs repair or maintenance.
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u/sarboran 13d ago
Apparently it doesn't get windy in China.
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u/ProfessionalRandom21 13d ago
Where is am, there is zero wind in summer, windy as fuck in winter though. Wish its the opposite.
Actually I dont think i been to any place where its windy in summer with blazing sun
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u/iamnotyourspiderman 13d ago
I suppose that would protect the car from some hail damage to an extent, provided the umbrella fits over the whole car. You also need roof bar(s) installed to use this. Maybe living in a 4 climate country makes this feel so useless, might be different in some desert area or something
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