Let’s continue with our exploration of unique and odd China. Hey! What do you think about the splash picture? Pretty odd, eh? Yeah, I know.
It’s a green-friendly police armored car. It is a fully electric armored police car for use domestically in China. You can read about it HERE, or HERE.
This is the mad Zijing Qingyuan Armored Spherical Cabin Electric Patrol Vehicle, seen on the Security China exhibition in Beijing last month. The vehicle is developed for anti-riot work by police and paramilitary forces. Its most interesting feature is the spherical cabin, allowing policemen a 360 degree look around. -Car News China
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Xpeng Motors premieres its EV-GA
This is pretty cool. This is a self-driving car made in China for the Chinese market. It’s got some pretty unique and amazing features that are decades ahead of most Western automakers. Hey guys! You’d had best fire your “diversity officers” and hire more engineers, don’t you think?
A "diversity officer" is a highly paid employee of a company that makes sure that political correctness, and other progressive issues are implemented in the company where they work. This was an Obama initiative, and most of the fortune 500 companies in the USA today have them. They are nothing less than PC commissars.
To understand what I mean about the dangers of having “Diversity Officers” instead of trying to compete against the very aggressive Chinese industry, you need to read what I have to say about their purpose. Why they are present in the United States. You can read about it at the link below. It will open up in a new tab so you need not worry about losing your place here.
Anyways…
Back to the subject at hand. XPeng Motors has unveiled a self-driving car. It is the EV-GA. It has numerous very unique features that will enable it to operate successfully in hyper crowded China. (You know, where there are cars all over the place, breaking every rule in the book… where little old ladies with walkers stand in front, and donkey carts pull in behind you.)
I argue that these are new innovations.
Not only new, but unique to China and if China continues in this pace of innovation, American industry won’t have a chance in Hell to keep up. Thus, my argument that the $450,000/year salary for a GM “Diversity Officer” would be better served hiring five design engineers instead.
Check out this video. And, unlike other videos that I might have posted in the past. This is not CGI. This is the actual car. It uses all four-wheel electric drives and operates in a a manner similar to the NASA Apollo lunar rover did.
Of course it will only be sold domestically.
This level of technology would take a while to be accepted and approved through the maze of regulations in the United States. I do know what I am talking about. You would not believe the amount of money that changed hands for us to get LED’s used in automobiles in the 1990’s. It was like pulling teeth.
What? You think that they just popped up and simply replaced traditional incandescent automotive lighting without having some bribery take place? You believe that, eh?
It’s a protectionism racket, and the government is not only complicit, but they often initiate all the hurtles you must climb through.
Of course, many people will take offense at this statement. You know, that the United States government has become a terribly corrupt organization. Well, to that, I must remind you about all the publicized corruption at the DOJ and FBI, but you know, that’s not what I am talking about here.
I am talking about using the power of the government to regulate for personal financial gain. Like what happened with PT-141. You can read about this sad state of affairs at the link below. It will open up in a different tab, so you need not worry about losing your place here.
Police Drill
The Chinese practice, and practice and practice. They believe that you must have the fundamentals down so that you can implement them automatically when the time comes to use them.
Here is a video of a police drill of the take down of a car in pursuit. Unlike the USA where you might have jurisdictional issues, in China, the various jurisdictions collaborate together in crime prevention. They have to. China is far too large, with too many people to play around for political posturing.
Snow Bunny
Ah. We have them in the states as well, don’t you know. But here, the snow bunny is actually dressed up to look like one. LOL. I think that it is enormously cute.
Just some Guys Having Fun
Here is a video of just some guys having fun. Seriously, we should be doing this kind of stuff more often than not, I’ll tell you what.
Maybe, by checking out the diversity of the micro-videos and the uniqueness of the subject matter, you (the reader) could better understand that China is an enormous and complex nation. It is growing and it is being managed by people who have got into positions of power through merit. The Western narrative, or as I like to say “cardboard cutout” of what China is, is a dangerous lie.
We have to recognize that China is growing and is not a nation to take trivially.
OK. At numerous videos for this part, let’s go and move on to the next post which covers even more strangeness inside of China this month…
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