America now has 100 percent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, but with US automakers struggling to compete and its reliance on China’s materials, will this help? Mercedes, BMW and VW think not.
  • Psiczar@aussie.zone
    93·
    6 months ago

    While I’m sure there are financial motives behind this that are backed by the US car industry, it also makes sense if you anticipate a war with China sometime in the future. You don’t really want a large proportion of your population driving cars manufactured by the enemy that can be switched off remotely.

    • Crikeste@lemm.ee
      61·
      6 months ago

      We shouldn’t be preparing for war with a rising world power, we should be trying to achieve partnership.

      But as Americans say: China bad, the slavery in MY prison system is justified.

      • Corkyskog
        2·
        6 months ago

        We shouldn’t be preparing for war with a rising world power, we should be trying to achieve partnership.

        Historically that has been a very grave error.

    • nekandro@lemmy.ml
      2·
      6 months ago

      That’s not the worry. The worry is that China is accumulating all of this industrial capacity (like the US pre-WW2) and that car factories really aren’t that different from APC/tank factories.

    • Num10ck@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      6 months ago

      switched off? how about flooring it into valuable targets? seizing up the freeways? locking up certain passengers?

      • Psiczar@aussie.zone
        3·
        6 months ago

        Sure, I went for the economic impact option, but causing chaos is certainly another way they could go.

      • B0rax@feddit.de
        2·
        6 months ago

        These vehicles can do much more. They usually have cameras (some are even required by law). Most of them are always connected to the internet, they could intercept and disturb communications.

        This is true for most modern cars.