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.
  • assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Obviously the whole security threat thing is just BS to justify restricting trade. You’re really not allowed to restrict trade under wto rules unless it’s a national security concern. It makes sense that the US would want to protect its industry but, it’s really infuriating that the US, the country that thrust neoliberalism free trade policies down developing countries throats, sometimes by force, now wants to do protectionism. Many developing economies growth was hampered and their economic ability to met their own needs to spiked into the ground by American coercion and sometimes violence. It further goes to show that the powerful countries really just do whatever the fuck they want often at the detriment of weaker nations.

    • Vendul@feddit.de
      02·
      11 months ago

      You see, Teslas are controllable by CIA while Chinese cars are not

  • Roopappy@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    11 months ago

    It seems like the “cars tracking you” problem is a very real and very serious thing that should obviously be legislated separately of electric vehicles or country of manufacture.

    I got a Mazda recently, and I was reading all the ownership paperwork, and the guy asked me what I was looking for. I said “I’m looking for the language about what data Mazda is collecting about me.” And the guy laughed and said there’s nothing in the paperwork about that. They just do it. You can’t shut it off.

      • VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        11 months ago

        Amazon did a thing where if your wifi is down Alexa can connect to a neighbors Alexa which will relay the message to the server.

        I imagine a car could do the same much easier, you pull up to the lights next to a car from the same manufacturer and it relays all your telemetrics.

        It’s time for an open source car.

  • naturalgasbad@lemmy.caOP
    0·
    11 months ago

    5G, garlic, cars…

    I know this may seem like an unusual concept to capitalist America, but having more competitors drives down prices.

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      Low prices aren’t always a good thing. Especially for the working class when those low prices are on imported goods that replace the products these workers used to make. I thought we already learned that neoliberal policies aren’t so hot for workers.

      • totallynotaspy@kbin.social
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        11 months ago

        Part of the problem with the EV market in the US right now is that the majority of models available are luxury cars in price. You can get a used Nissan leaf for ~16k, but issue with that is their driving range can be anywhere between 80-100 miles (works great for errands and daily commuting). Not even gonna mention the headache of figuring out the charging port type(seems NACS format is winning the market).

        I have long maintained China is a security threat, but I am excited for the news because it will (hopefully!) push US auto makers to make more affordable models with 200+ mile range.

        • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
          1·
          11 months ago

          Agreed. But that’s not limited to EVs is it. They’ve raised prices overall both towards the bottom, altogether dropping smaller models, increasing the sizes of others to charge more, etc. And it works. The average purchase price is currently around 50K in the US. Which is stepping into the lower end of the EV market. So what I’m saying is this isn’t an EV thing. It’s an auto maker price and profit maximization thing. On the bright side, it’s a low margin business which means the overall amount of money that is getting extracted and not making it to workers is towards the better end of the economy. 🫢

    • spamspeicher@feddit.deEnglish
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      11 months ago

      American OPEC monopoly

      What the hell does that even mean? The USA aren’t even part of the OPEC1, how are they supposed to be in the “OPEC monopoly”? Or do you mean Venezuela with America? And why monopoly? OPEC/ OPEC+ are only responsible for 30-40%2 of crude production, that is a weird monopoly.

      1 https://www.opec.org/opec_web/en/about_us/25.htm

      The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded in Baghdad, Iraq, with the signing of an agreement in September 1960 by five countries namely Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. They were to become the Founder Members of the Organization.

      These countries were later joined by Qatar (1961), Indonesia (1962), Libya (1962), the United Arab Emirates (1967), Algeria (1969), Nigeria (1971), Ecuador (1973), Gabon (1975), Angola (2007), Equatorial Guinea (2017) and Congo (2018).

      2 https://www.bbc.com/news/business-61188579

      …Together, Opec+ countries produce about 40% of all the world’s crude oil.

        • spamspeicher@feddit.de
          01·
          11 months ago

          America is the largest oil producer in the entire world

          So, still no monopoly. Even IF we counted OPEC as “American OPEC monopoly” they together would only account for 50-60% of crude oil production. Far away from a monopoly, maybe you should read up on the term monopoly.

          America controls …

          And even then, OPEC most of the time acts against US interests. Crazy how big the “control” and influence the US has over these countries and OPEC then. They have so much control that even Russia is part of OPEC+ since 2016. AMERICA STRONK!

        • 0xD@infosec.pub
          03·
          11 months ago

          Ah, yes. America with its magic wand controlling everything and everyone! Just yesterday evening Biden made me snort three lines of coke.

  • callouscomic@lemm.eeEnglish
    01·
    11 months ago

    “We need to reduce carbon emissions!”

    “No not like that!”

    Haha. It’s just silly. I know nothing about the actual story.