[zakary]

Definitely a lot of potentially very serious and important downsides to this.

I’m trying to think of any possible upsides to this.

- harder for unlicensed people, eg kids, to drive a car and hurt themselves or someone else. - harder to steal a car if you’re not an approved driver, regardless of what you do with a copied key fob. - potentially easier to resolve insurance disputes - harder for people to commit premeditated crimes using cars (eg getaway driver to a robbery)

That said, these things only really happen if almost all cars on the road have this “feature”. Which means if all new cars in china must have this, then for at least 20 years after introduction, people wanting to skirt the law/surveillance will just use older cars.

So then in the end everyone loses out except for the people this is purportedly target towards, who just go around it.