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> It's why we can't buy BYD cars are you sure it has nothing to do with the fact that those cars are very heavy, potentially fire-making (battery firmware) com
by teravor 4mo ago
> It's why we can't buy BYD cars
are you sure it has nothing to do with the fact that those cars are very heavy, potentially fire-making (battery firmware) computers on wheels that can be rooted (or are already) at any time by their manufacturers in China?
- antonvs 4mo ago> potentially fire-making (battery firmware) computers on wheels Is Tesla any different?
- teravor 4mo ago> Is Tesla any different? if you are adversary of the US and the possibility of a hot conflict with it exists, it is not.
- wat10000 4mo agoWhat makes BYD different from, say, Volvo, which sells EVs freely in the US?
- teravor 4mo agoHeadquarters Gothenburg, Sweden
- wat10000 4mo agoParent Geely Holding (78.7%)
- teravor 4mo agoand if you see the parent starting to replace Volvo engineers with Chinese nationals you will witness sudden change of heart by US officials; until then it really is just a financial fiction
- wat10000 4mo agoHow exactly does the fact that this goes through a subsidiary in Sweden change the things you mentioned?
- cwel 4mo agoApparently, whether or not the engineers are Chinese is the deciding factor. as long as Nicklas Backstrom is designing the EV, its all good. Or in other words, Chinese scary!
- teravor 4mo ago> Chinese scary! Chinese nationals should be assumed to act on behalf of China, it really isn't difficult to understand even for pathologically empathetic people.
- wat10000 4mo agoThat's fine, but what stops those Chinese nationals at Geely from messing with their cars now?
- teravor 4mo agodo you have evidence that if they wanted to do that they would not be giving orders to European or American engineers? as I said, financial fictions don't matter in matters such as these. if you have evidence that they have Chinese nationals working as engineers without oversight, you should submit it to the government.
- wat10000 4mo ago“Give us the signing keys to the software update servers.” “No.” You really think that’s how that conversation would go?
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- kajman 4mo agoIs the idea that we're just one OTA update from them turning into bombs? Considering the quality of software in the auto industry, I would be about as worried about any domestically assembled EV.