That's not just adjustable damping; that's a fully powered suspension.
Both this and the Bose linear actuator one lift just the wheel that needs lifting, just enough to clear the obstacle, keeping everything perfectly steady, it's incredible.
The fact that it can also do silly jumps for marketing reasons is a different topic.
A more impressive demo is that it can do precise turns in place without skidding.[1] That's the U8, BYD's answer to Rivian. The U9 can do that too.
Rivian did demo a turn in place, but they were spewing dirt all over.[2] Rivian took the feature out.
Now, those are BYD's high end supercars, to show off the technology. The high-end volume vehicle, the U7, just came out.[3] That is under US$90K (depending on what tariffs are on this week) and competes with Tesla's higher end products. All the fancy torque and suspension control of the supercar, but at a lower price point.
BYD isn't offering it in the US. Just the rest of the world.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhvjPwshME0
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BkxjHkOvYY
[3] https://electrek.co/2025/03/27/byd-launched-first-ultra-luxu...
G-wagon also ships with tank turn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es01er7RnGs
Seems BYD really put some engineering behind this gimmick to make it as graceful and controllable as possible, while Rivian just winged some pointless demos and G-Wagon one is rough and very situational (sand/snow/wet).
Yes. That makes it useful. The automatic parking feature can use a precise skidding turn when necessary.[1]
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/other/byd-s-new-feature-make...
Surely the system takes cornering into account. Having a suspension that can use predictive motions to compensate for a pothole would ideally produce better handling by minimizing the disruption of a pothole imparting a massive disturbance to the vehicle.
Yet, for some reason they, supposedly, want to use the so-called Bose tech too.
> It can sense and jump potholes.
The Bose system’s most famous demo was sensing and jumping over speed bumps.
> That's not just adjustable damping; that's a fully powered suspension.
Right, but it appears the company who bought the Bose Magic Carpet portfolio isn’t doing what the original demo did 20 years ago, they’re just using the name.
No, the Citroen Activa active suspension was in production from 1996.
It was a nice, mass market adaptive damping suspension.
The Bose is a fully active linear actuator, and fast. It can move your wheel around a speed bump independently. It's awesome. It was also north of $100k just for the suspension and iirc was never used in mass production.