"Safety!" Song He asked. "Planes are afraid of hitting birds. What about this car? Can it withstand bird strikes? Are the rotors strong enough?"
"There's an official test video released online by Yilong Motors. They fired an entire magazine from a submachine gun at the rotors, and it still took off!" Yuan Guang said confidently.
"Let's consider an extreme situation. Suppose someone raises pigeons and is afraid they'll fly away and get carried off by an eagle, so they put a layer of iron armor on the pigeons." Song He spoke half-jokingly. "What if an iron pigeon flew into the rotors and shredded them? Would that cause a safety problem?"
"No!" Yuan Guang waved his hand. "It has four rotors. Even if two stop spinning, it can still fly. There's a test video on the official website too!"
"What if a flock of iron pigeons came over and smashed all the rotors off?"
Yuan Guang was speechless. "You might as well assume it flew over an anti-aircraft machine-gun position and got sprayed by hundreds of machine guns! Where would so many iron pigeons come from?"
"Even if some busybody really released iron pigeons, they might not be able to hit it!" Yuan Guang raised a finger. "Three layers of bird-strike protection!"
"First, white rotating circles have been painted above and below the propeller rotors. Just like airplane engines, most birds will keep away when they see those white circles."
"Second, bird-repelling sound waves. While we're flying, the underside of the car broadcasts special sound waves in all directions. They're extremely piercing to birds, which will avoid them on their own."
"Third, this car also has a radar system for detecting flocks of birds. If it detects a flock approaching at high speed, it will brake urgently!"
Song He suddenly understood.