Has a BYD gone crazy in an airport?
This page is translated from the original post "Une BYD est-elle devenue folle dans un aéroport ?" in French.
- 31/07/2025 10:23
On July 24, in the parking lot of Tianfu airport, a BYD Han was spinning endlessly, like a goldfish in its bowl.
Very quickly, social media lit up: “An autonomous BYD goes crazy,” “Car out of control!,” “AI failure!,” “Danger of electric cars!” Some already saw BYD falling into a new scandal. Spoiler: no, it wasn’t a software bug. It was just… an excess of human anger.
This little human madness that a BYD will never have
In less than 4 hours, the truth was established, videos analyzed, the driver identified and arrested. And no, the car was not possessed. The man had simply come to pick up a passenger who never arrived. Frustrated, and evidently out of patience and more constructive ideas, he began to drive in circles to pass the time and vent his annoyance.
Specialist internet users quickly spotted the clues. Controlled braking, firm accelerations, well-marked stops… In short, no behavior symptomatic of an out-of-control autonomous car, just a driver trying to drown his frustration in the worst way.
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So naturally, one wonders how the gathering of a hundred spectators and the presence of the police didn’t alert the driver… We will probably never know, but let’s at least recognize him for some mastery of the wheel and a sense of spectacle… without any damage!
Morality? This little circus had nothing to do with the reliability of BYD. The brand, the world’s number one in electrified vehicles, has just surpassed the milestone of 13 million cars produced. In trying too hard to unleash technophobic criticisms, we sometimes forget that the real breakdown can sometimes be that of human intelligence. Come on, next time, a little sudoku while waiting for his passenger, right?
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