The U.S. Commerce Department is expected to propose barring Chinese software in autonomous and connected vehicles in the coming weeks, according to sources briefed on the matter.
The Biden administration plans to issue a proposed rule that would bar Chinese software in vehicles in the United...
What’s to stop an American company from hiring overseas workers to write their American software? This is fairly common practice in the industry, and would expose similar security concerns.
The proposed legislation would make it easier to mandate an audit on code in the future. The US can’t enforce laws on other countries. China is probably the only large car producer that would sell cars in the US and resit such an audit.
If China makes dangerous self driving cars, they will be very difficult to investigate.
Setting aside the point that there’s no reason that it’d be more profitable to do work domestically, there’s no general restriction on overseas software production. This is specific to China.
What’s to stop an American company from hiring overseas workers to write their American software? This is fairly common practice in the industry, and would expose similar security concerns.
But then the profits stay in America.
If they really cared about safety, they would mandate open or at least independently audited source code.
The proposed legislation would make it easier to mandate an audit on code in the future. The US can’t enforce laws on other countries. China is probably the only large car producer that would sell cars in the US and resit such an audit.
If China makes dangerous self driving cars, they will be very difficult to investigate.
Setting aside the point that there’s no reason that it’d be more profitable to do work domestically, there’s no general restriction on overseas software production. This is specific to China.
Banning something Chinese is easier to wrap in the “national security” narrative even if that’s not the real reason.