The US Commerce Department on Monday will propose a ban on the sale or import of smart vehicles that use specific Chinese or Russian technology because of national security concerns, according to US officials.
A US government investigation that began in February found a range of national security risks from embedded software and hardware from China and Russia in US vehicles, including the possibility of remote sabotage by hacking and the collection of personal data on drivers, Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo told reporters Sunday in a conference call.
“In extreme situations, a foreign adversary could shut down or take control of all their vehicles operating in the United States, all at the same time, causing crashes (or) blocking roads,” she said.
Can we can smart cars entirely? Every addition in the past five years has been awful
Just wait for subscriptions to become the new normal. GPS for $4, smart services for another $10. They’re basically going down the mobile games standards for enshittification.
My dad got a car in 2011. It has gps. He has to pay a premium to update that, and roads get changed surprisingly often. This is by no means new!
Hell, OnStar has been a thing since 1996. My dad’s 2005 Buick had it.
I had a car from 2012, Ford. Built in GPS. Cost of upgrading? About $200 in Denmark.
Incidentally my car is also from 2011. It has no GPS, so much cheaper for me to use navigation. Less integrated though. Which is of course why they can charge so much for new maps.
Wow my car generates crypto for Ford while I drive that’s just great I really feel the benefit also it tells me that climate change isn’t real so I don’t even feel bad for driving everywhere
This is just the Tiktok ban all over again. The problem is not the Chinese apps/cars spying on you, it’s ALL the apps/cars spying on you. If it’s creepy to have a foreign power with that much access to our data, then it’s creepy for a company to have it too.
Yeah, I don’t need hezbollahed from my giant battery toting me around.
Russian? Are there really that many people trying to import Ladas?
And they could just regulate the tech itself, keep everyone safe, but no, they only block the Bad Countries. Because it’s about money. Nobody calling the shots cares about safety here.
Defcon literally every god damn year: “Here’s how to hack and remotely control a car, which we did it by hijacking the stupid cloud based data collecting service installed on the hardware. Now we can just send whole ass CAN frames and make it do whatever we want”
Feds at defcon: “Yeah but did China make it? Cuz if China made it, only then is it a problem”
They’re punishing russia and china for the zionist terror attack?
Smart move, politicians. \s
