Watch This BYD Hit The Three-Wheeled Motion To Avoid A Parking Boot

It seems parking enforcement officers in China may need to find a new way to punish BYD drivers who have acquired too many tickets. A wild video circulating on Chinese social media shows the off-road-focused Fangchengbao Bao 8 doing its best impression of a ’64 Impala lowrider by driving on just three wheel to avoid dealing with a parking boot. The clip was filmed on a road in Jinshan Town, Lianyunggang, and it shows the dark green Bao 8 pulling out of a parking space with the left front wheel about a foot of the ground, rendering the boot useless.

While this may look like AI, it isn’t. The feature certainly wasn’t designed for nefarious purposes such as this, but at least in this scenario, driving with a boot on won’t damage the vehicle. That’s because the Bao 8 features BYD’s advanced DiSus-P Ultra suspension system. It includes dual-valve dampers, allowing the vehicle to raise one wheel off the ground. The system was developed to make wheel and tire changes easy without a jack. It also lets a driver raise one wheel to drive over an obstacle on an off-road trail, though the system operates only up to 9.3 mph (15 km/h).

The Fao 8 can go off-roading on three wheels

Fangchengbao

Driving at low speeds with the wheel raised could allow someone with a flat tire to drive to a safer location without further creating damage to the tire or wheel. Of course, when not dealing with a flat tire (or a boot), this technology can help overcome obstacles in the vehicle’s way, especially while driving off-road. According to BYD, the system delivers up to over 19,000 pounds of lifting force and can suspend a wheel in mid-air for up to 24 hours. This means if the vehicle approaches a rock, log, or rut in the trail, one of the tires can retract to create more clearance, making it easier to get around or over the obstruction.

Police could always resort to using remote-controlled recovery robots to move vehicles that are illegally parked, but if parking inspectors in China are looking for an alternative to a wheel clamp without towing, they’d be wise to adopt something like the Barnacle used in some areas of the U.S. This device uses strong suction cups to stick to the windshield of a car, blocking the driver’s field of view. While it doesn’t actually prevent the car from moving, it obviously makes driving very difficult. Removing the Barnacle without the proper tools is also extremely hard.

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