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
    13•9 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 AmoebaEnglish
      11•9 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
      -12•9 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.