The president ordered an investigation into auto technology that could track U.S. drivers, part of a broader effort to stop E.V. and other smart-car imports from China.

Biden Calls Chinese Electric Vehicles a Security Threat::The president ordered an investigation into auto technology that could track U.S. drivers, part of a broader effort to stop E.V. and other smart-car imports from China.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    8 months ago

    Administration officials noted that American auto manufacturers that sold vehicles to customers in China were essentially forced by Chinese officials to use Chinese software in their vehicles.

    I do question the amount of lifting the word essentially is doing in the above snippet, but that does sound like grounds to limit the inverse for Chinese imports

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.caEnglish
      10·
      8 months ago

      No need to question it. Western auto companies in China aren’t independent. They’re nearly always joint 50/50 ventures with Chinese auto companies and are under Chinese government regulation. I know for a fact that at least one American car company has the infotainment software for China written in China while all other regions use completely different software, written in NA.

    • Altofaltception@lemmy.worldEnglish
      513·
      8 months ago

      Well, if the US spies on its own citizens can you imagine the shady shit they’d do on Chinese citizens?

      I also wonder if restrictions on software are in response to the US restricting access to Huawei tech in allied nations. This shit is not new.

      I also wouldn’t put it past US officials to inflate something for their own purposes - what if the Chinese requirement is for Chinese language software and it got turned around into Chinese software to serve an agenda.