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hey I'm in Shenzhen China which is
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probably the world's most high-tech city
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today I spent about a week here checking
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out all the tech from food delivery via
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drones to insane highspeed rail
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autonomous police robots the most
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futuristic cars and more I also used to
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live here and I still have a bunch of
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good friends so I asked them what oldest
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Tech actually feels like as a resident
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is it a techno Utopia a techno dystopia
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or maybe both let's find
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[Music]
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out this video was sponsored by insta
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360 my journey to Shen started in this
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gorgeous train station because of course
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I'll be arriving from Hong Kong to
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Shenzhen via what else but a high-speed
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train obviously you have a fast rail
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service 185 km an hour from City Center
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to city center in 14 minutes one4 how do
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you do that by putting the whole thing
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completely into a tunnel completely
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underground can't see
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anything on the shenen side there are
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platform screen doors to keep the wind
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from sucking you in the tunnel as one of
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these speeds by and I got to say an
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Express train to the city center is the
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best way to arrive to a place in my
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opinion okay after the train we went to
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our hotel and of course we took a Metro
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for that this was metro line one which
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was the only line that was properly
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finished when I first lefted here in
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2007 but things have very much changed
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since now this is the Metro Network
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right now if I'm counting this correctly
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I think they have something like 16
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proper lines right now and that means
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they buil one new line almost every year
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crazy indeed the buildout of the Metro
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system has been absolutely staggering
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and that shows in many of the stations
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too we are at ganga North Station which
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is their newest and most modern Metro
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station there are I think four lines
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crossing here and these look incredibly
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modern most of the other stations look
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much more plain than this but this one's
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really cool as you can see all the
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trains crisscrossing in their little
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transparent tubes a couple more Metro
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fun facts is that you can now first of
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all choose if you want to have a car
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with a colder AC or one with more
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moderate temperatures which is nice then
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I also really like that BYO Maps will
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actually automatically recognize which
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station you're at and it will update
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that on your phone as you've just seen
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and finally I also encountered this
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Slightly bizarre thing at ganga this is
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the next Generation gate that you exit
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the subway from you can either type your
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card as normal or you can do face
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recognition I guess it's not really a
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choice because it's going to try to
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recognize your face even if you don't
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have it set
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up kind of futuristic kind of creepy now
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sticking with public transportation for
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a while I really really like shenzhen's
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buses in large part because this was the
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first big city in the world that
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embraced fully electric city buses in
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2018 and as a result they're now super
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quiet oh man they're so nice these used
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to be so loud and smelly and now they
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just aren't and also completely
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electrified were all the official taxis
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by 2018 along with the buses these bys
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aren't like super premium or anything
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and private right healing drivers can
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drive whatever they want including gas
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cars but none of the right healing
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drivers that picked me up in the whole
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week drove anything other than electric
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given that EVS in China are already
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cheaper than their IC counterparts and
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still falling in their prices I think
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that makes a lot of sense but even more
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futuristic is that chenan actually also
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has Robo taxes from three different
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local companies I managed to try one
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from a company called Pony Ai and ours
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had a safety driver in it he didn't
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actually control the car but he was
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seemingly there to just intervene if
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something happened this car was
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surprisingly a Lexus Hybrid so not a
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Chinese EV which is what I would have
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expected but yeah the car itself drove
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pretty well it's kind of weird how
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uneventful Robo taxi rides feel when
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they actually happen I'm guessing that
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these Chinese firms are a tiny bit
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behind what weo for example can do in
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the US because you can actually only
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order them in a few small districts in
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the city which are newly built and have
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particularly easy to navigate streets
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plus from what I can tell about half of
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them have Safety Drivers still the
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Chinese firms are clearly developing the
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technology and funnily enough the pony
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AI car that I tried was from a company
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called tensent which the US government
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has just designated as a Chinese
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military company so technically I guess
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that means I've ritten a Chinese
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military vehicle now cool now actually
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getting a robotaxi was rather
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frustrating four times in a row we
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waited for about an hour or so just to
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have our order canceled and the locals
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said that that's apparently because the
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taxi drivers are angry and they're
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trying to sabotage their current Network
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by placing many fake orders clearly not
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everyone is happy about losing their
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jobs to robots even in China which is
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especially understandable because
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because the country's economy right now
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is in a pretty terrible shape and
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unemployment is very high and continuing
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with automation we saw a surprising
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number of other robots tool there was
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this self-driving bus which I didn't
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manage to get on sadly but it also seems
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to be in early testing in about the same
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area as the robot taxis and there's also
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for example this street cleaning bot it
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was seemingly fully autonomous and it
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was just riding around doing robot stuff
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but perhaps the most bizarre machines
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were these police robots which we saw
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quite a few of in some of the
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pedestrianized areas this one appeared
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to be fully autonomous and was clearly
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observing stuff and Reporting back to HQ
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and meanwhile this bigger one was I
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think still being tested because I saw a
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guy with a remote control actually
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directing it this was broadcasting
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messages on its screen and was telling
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people to avoid scams and stuff and
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overall police robots in public spaces
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felt rather odd and talking of
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unexpected things this truck is
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something that I've never seen before
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either apparently his job is to spray
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water into the air to get to dust to
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settle and to improve air quality looks
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fun and of course it had a green plate
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so I guess it's also Electric but hey
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Shenzhen is the city of drones right
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it's home to DJI the largest drone
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company in the world by far and also
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many others and so maybe it's not
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surprising that shenen also now does flu
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to delivery via drones and of course I
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had to try that too specifically there
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are a few of these giant vending machine
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looking things in some parts of the city
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like in this park at the seaside there
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you can get on the mwan app where you
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can choose from a list of restaurants
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and cafes that delivered to there
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specifically you wait after placing your
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order and then eventually a drone shows
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up with a box it lands on top of the
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building the Box detaches and the the
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Drone flies away and then your delivery
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comes down in a little escalator and is
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available in this box
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t comes in a recycling
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box those are the goods now there are
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instructions for how to get rid of the
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Box delivered okay we made it our tea SL
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fruit drink from a drone
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cheers for now this two seems to be in a
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pretty early stage as the locals were
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all treating it like a novelty as well
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and the service is also limited to just
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a few designated spots in the city like
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these parks where delivery might
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otherwise be complicated we actually
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also managed to find the station where
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the packages were sent from and this was
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in the middle of a busy restaurant area
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you can see a regular delivery driver
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dropping off the food over there then
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the orders get put into a drone box of
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sort they get attached to a drone and
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then they're sent off on their way also
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it seems like every drone gets a battery
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swap here after its delivery now I
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personally not necessarily want to have
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drones buzzing above me all day when I'm
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trying to chill in a park or something
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but still I got to say the service
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worked surprisingly well we even saw
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them taking away the Drone boxes which
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are kind of reusable so the trash
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doesn't seem to be much worse than a
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normal delivery either okay and talking
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of food delivery another mind-blowing
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thing about Shenzhen is that only
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electric scooters or mopeds are allowed
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there're no gas powered ones at all
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which is probably the most important
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step for fighting noise pollution all of
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these scooters are dead silent apart
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from their honking that is and on the
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one hand that is amazing but on the
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other the drivers are also tolerated on
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the sidewalks which means you get tons
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of Silent delivery driver E Scooters
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going full speed in places that people
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walk which is also really quite annoying
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at times anyway these E Scooters are
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also super popular among normal people
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and I met a friend of mine who not only
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demonstrated hers to me including its
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ability to carry her amazingly cute dog
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but then she even let me try her scooter
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as well first I was just riding around
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and then at some point the doggo
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randomly decided to join me which really
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made my day oh my God hello anyway in
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many streets there are dedicated scooter
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Lanes like the one that I'm on which are
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amazing but as I said people ride
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basically anywhere and it's all chaos my
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friend also said that her scooter only
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cost about $500 which is insane and this
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is clearly a super convenient way to get
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around town for short to medium
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distances interestingly she said that
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people were not allowed to charge their
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scooter batteries at home due to
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apartment fires and in the past so she
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also sent me this
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video This is how we charge the bite
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here plug in your charger you see those
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stand on the
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street Everywhere by the
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neighborhood just pluck it
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in and then scan this code now talking
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of things in public I've also seen a ton
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of people leaving their scooters and
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ebikes often completely unlocked in
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public and often even with the key in
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the ignition at times can you guess how
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that is possible that's right shenen has
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CCTV cameras literally everywhere that
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is not an exaggeration I think there's
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basically no space outside of private
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homes and maybe toilets that don't have
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at least one CCTV camera pointed at it
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at all times like in this clip you can
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see what an average Metro station looks
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like for example and of course every
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part of a public road is full of cameras
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too both from overpasses like this one
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here or cameras on the side and then
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there's also this are at a very nice
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little Park here in Shenzhen Bay and
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everything is nice until you realize
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there are security cameras
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everywhere
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there
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there everything has
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cameras surprisingly public parks
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actually seem particularly full of
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cameras to the point where I think that
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on average about three to four of them
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are looking at you at any given time
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also every Chinese citizen has to set up
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facial recognition for just about every
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service that they use while as a
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foreigner you have to have your face
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scanned when you enter the country so
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it's pretty clear that the government
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has the ability to use face recognition
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to constantly track basically where
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everyone is at all times in public with
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no exceptions my friends have also said
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that they've recently started seeing
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some people wearing full face masks that
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hide their identities from facial
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recognition in public but I haven't
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actually seen that myself now that is
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obviously pretty dystopian and I don't
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want to defend the system and especially
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if you're somebody who has trouble with
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the Chinese government which a lot of
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people in China do and these things are
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not your friends but then on the other
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side there's also some very clear
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benefits 10 years ago people in Shenzhen
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would still wear their bags in the front
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like this because if you didn't people
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would steal your stuff of course that is
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now almost completely gone at least the
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perception of petty crime is completely
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gone because you can't really steal
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stuff when everything is constantly on
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camera the other day we went to a random
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store and this guy super nice guy helped
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us out he left the store to help us to
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help us out he left his iPhone unlocked
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locked his bag with all of his valuables
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on the counter and he just came back 5
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minutes later didn't even think about it
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nobody thought anything about it because
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he can't steal stuff when everything is
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always on camera it is kind of like
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living in one of those Amazon stores
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where you can just walk in and take
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whatever you want and walk out and it
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will bill you automatically that is the
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whole country everything all the public
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space you can literally see people
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leaving bikes unlocked at all times
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packages unattended at the front desk
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and many bizarre things like this Car
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Store and there's a paper on the car
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that says uh I've gone out I'll be back
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soon what the hell this country this is
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The Car Store and indeed there's nobody
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inside just the paper that says I'll be
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back
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amazing China is basically at the point
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where this kind of crime is no longer
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feasible but neither is any semblance of
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privacy you can't even pay for most
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things with cash anymore and you can
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only use mobile wallets in many places
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which of course is also tied to an ID so
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you're always leaving a trail now
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importantly this is not necessarily A
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tradeoff that I personally approve of
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but it is one that has to be mentioned
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now I also wanted to add a side note
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here because I actually managed to spend
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some time in Beijing after I already
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finished and edited this video and that
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gave me a whole new perspective on all
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the stuff that I saw in chenhan I last
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lived in Beijing in 2012 so something
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like 13 years ago meaning that the gap
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between this visit and that was even
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bigger but the change in Beijing
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actually felt way smaller the city
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largely felt the same and all the
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high-tech stuff that I saw in CH genen
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was clearly years behind there were
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noticeably fewer EVs and still some gas
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powered buses in some of the places
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there were way fewer cameras in public
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so you didn't feel constantly surveilled
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as much and we even saw a fist fight in
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a back alley between some drunk dudes
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which I guess would have been much
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harder to pull off in Shenzhen clearly
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despite even being the capital and also
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having an on paper higher GDP per capita
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than Shenzhen progress here was way
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slower and that's a good reminder that
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chenin is not necessarily representative
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of the whole country but rather one
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super high Tech island of its own in a
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way anyway enough of Beijing and now
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back to Shenzhen now talking of car
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shops I think the car situation I've
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seen here is also worth talking about in
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more detail so shenan is home of byd the
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country's leading electric car maker and
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it's also either the richest city in
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China by now or pretty close to it so
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the cars on the road reflect this
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reality quite well you can see about a
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50/50 mix of green and blue plates on
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the road green plates in the last few
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years were only given to Pure EVS while
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a few years before that they were also
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given to plug-in hybrids meanwhile the
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blue plates are everything else and I
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found that they typically fall into one
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of two categories I often saw blue
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plates on pretty obviously older cars
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that were probably bought before the
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whole current EV boom or also often on
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really fancy cars like this hongi luxury
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car or often also on foreign Brands like
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on Porsches and mercedes's meanwhile the
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green plates were on the majority of
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what I'd consider the kind of normal
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mainstream new cars the vast majority of
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these seem to be local Brands like byd
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leeauto xun ziker Neo xiaomi mg GAC Arc
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Fox Ito and so on and the sheer variety
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of Brands and models is actually quite
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shocking now Teslas are fairly common
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sight in Shenzhen though Countrywide
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they only have about a 2.9% market share
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so I think they're probably over
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represented here and meanwhile for
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Volkswagen I think I only saw maybe four
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green plated ID models in about the week
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which is surprisingly few given how
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aggressive their prices have been in
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China the ID3 for example costs about
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$166,000 in China Which is less than
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half of what it costs in Germany but
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meanwhile other International Brands
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were perhaps even rarer with their green
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plates usually when I saw a green plate
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it wasn't a car from a Chinese brand so
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I think if Chinese consumers choose to
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go electric they also typically choose
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to go domestic now charging is also an
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interesting topic some R hailing drivers
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told me that their Apartments have
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banned EV charges to avoid any fire risk
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While others told me that they can
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charge at home no problem I've seen a
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few public charging networks as well
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though many of those already looked
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somewhat dated which really shows you
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that China has been at this for quite a
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while but seemingly all the big local
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Brands run their own Tesla Supercharger
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like Networks I found one parking lot in
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Shenzhen where there were a lot of them
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next to each other and interestingly
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they all had these little metal blockers
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as well apparently cars from the ride
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brand can lower the blockers for their
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own network letting them charge and I've
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seen a few of them do just that some of
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these also appear to be ultra fast so
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this one from Lee Auto for example
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claims to be a 5c charger 5c means that
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it will fill up a battery at 1/5th of an
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hour at its peak which would be in 12
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minutes I think there's a peak charging
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speed which then slows down as you get
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closer to 100 but it's still pretty
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impressive oh and even faster is Neo who
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does battery swaps and in this station
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that was here we saw them do their 3
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minute battery swaps the car enters a
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sort of self-driving mode where it Parks
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itself into this garage looking thing
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there it gets lifted up the battery gets
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pulled out and lowered into the ground
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then the new battery goes up and the
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process is pretty much done the car even
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drives itself off the ramp automatically
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very cool and the next Neo car was
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already waiting in line when the first
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one was done now another thing I found
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very interesting about cars here is just
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how the retail experience was also so
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unexpected we did see an old school
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parking lot kind of space with a bunch
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of car stores that felt like what I'm
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used to from car stores but then we also
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saw cars being sold inside just about
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every shopping mall and shopping street
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that we were in as well now I've seen a
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few stores like this in Europe as well
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but here they just seem to be as common
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as stores for clothes or Electronics
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showing you just how competitive the
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market has become and talking of phones
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I of course also had to go to some
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electronic stores and I found that the
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Huawei one was the most interesting I'm
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sure that you've already heard of their
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triple fold phone called the mate XT and
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I can confirm that it looks quite
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surreal in real life not exactly my cup
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of tea with the exposed screen on the
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outside and I haven't actually seen any
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normal person use it on the street
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myself but they did sell out apparently
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and I did also hear from a friend's
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father who was feeling very patriotic
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and bought like five of these for a
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bunch of their family members so that's
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something and then in more futuristic
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Huawei gadgets I also saw the world's
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first Smartwatch that can measure your
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blood pressure it does that with this
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tube on the inside that it can inflate
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to get a reading of course the band then
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becomes a little bit un wieldly as a
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result so this is definitely not for
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everyone but still kind of cool
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meanwhile the following gadgets were
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also really interesting so this is the m
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pad Pro which has a tandem OLED screen
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that also has a nano texture coating
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super nice no Reflections at all and the
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handwriting experience is apparently
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really
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nice and this one is running Harmony OS
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next which is huawei's own operating
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system that is apparently not based on
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Android anymore
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so Huawei is going completely the Apple
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route with own chip own operating system
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own ecosystem everything now the retail
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experiences in Shenzhen are pretty next
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level in general this is a hyper
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capitalistic city that is very clearly
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completely obsessed with chopping and
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that very much shows with all of its
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good and bad sides most of the retail
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spaces feel just very nicely put
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together and just in general this whole
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city was built in the last 40 years or
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so from scratch so if you like me like
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modern architecture and skyscrapers and
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and stuff you might really enjoy how the
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city feels Ultra Modern in general but
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on the flip side everything is extremely
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commercial and one bizarre occurrence
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across the city is that you can see so
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many influencers influencing in public
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everywhere these are typically pretty
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girls posing for their cameras in the
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middle of shopping streets or in front
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of fancy stores but I've also seen
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grandmas with their kids posing and
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doing dances in public for the camera
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and more I mean I can't cast any Stones
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since I'm Vlogging out here in public
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myself but it definitely felt a little
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odd okay and moving on to more positive
00:18:28
things since I've told you about every
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other kind of Transportation in Shenzhen
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I thought I'd also give you a quick
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update on what it's like to bike here
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the absolute best biking that you can do
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is on this amazing new recreational bike
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lane that they recently added along the
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coastline my guess is that this goes on
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continuously for something like 20
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kilometers uninterrupted and the city
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has basically turned half of its
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Coastline into one gigantic continuous
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park with a prominent and the Fantastic
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bike Ling that I'm on this is fabulous
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and a huge upgrade from the last time
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when I was here when the bike
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infrastructure was pretty lacking now in
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the rest of the city biking on most
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roads still felt a little bit terrifying
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as somebody who's used to European
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standards they have started to put up
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barriers to make protected bike Lanes
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but I found that there are constantly
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people walking in these or parking in
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them so they felt particularly useless
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for now in my experience Chinese City
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Transformations typically follow the
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pattern that they first start putting up
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the infrastructure and then they very
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gradually start enforcing the rules
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around it so my guess is that maybe in 3
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or 4 years biking will have become a
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little bit easier for now though it
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still feels Fair fairly adventurous
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outside of the coastline okay and you
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might have noticed that a bunch of the
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most interesting shots in this video and
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especially the ones on bikes and
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scooters are ones that I got with the
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insta 360 X4 which is a camera that lets
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you get shots that no other camera could
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for example I stuck mine on a 3M long
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carbon fiber stick which the camera
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could then hide in stitching so in the
00:19:47
final video you get a kind of drone view
00:19:49
of yourself that you could reframe as
00:19:51
you wish this is great in sy's like sh
00:19:53
genen where drones are ironically not
00:19:55
permitted or just impractical due to
00:19:57
space constraints and the wide angle
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allows for insanely good stabilization
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so it's especially great for action
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scenes the camera can shoot in a
00:20:04
combined 8K resolution using both lenses
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which is plenty to let you crop in
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however you want and still get a really
00:20:10
high quality output and selecting the
00:20:12
perfect angle is also very easy using
00:20:14
the app which allows you to
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automatically track subjects for example
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with just one click and it even lets you
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tilt and twist the phone around to set
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what you want to be in focus and with my
00:20:23
link in the description you can even get
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an extra good deal on the X4 the first
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10 buyers with my link will actually
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receive a free bullet time accessory
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worth $65 until the 2nd of March that is
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a limited time offer in set 360 also has
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lots of other creative cameras like the
00:20:39
tiny magnetic go 3s or the Ace Pro 2
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which I recently took diving with me so
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I've left links to those below as well
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happy filming and I'll see you in the
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next video
