[epolanski]

Cars are not critical infrastructure, also, the idea that China would turn off their EVs or starting to use them as weapons from the other side of the world is borderline absurd.

Occam's razor suggests that the simplest solution is the most probable: they are scared of the competition, because they know that if those cars enter the market they will dominate it.

[JumpCrisscross]

> Cars are not critical infrastructure

Their production infrastructure is.

> the idea that China would turn off their EVs or starting to use them as weapons from the other side of the world is borderline absurd

Is it? If we got into a shooting match with Beijing, would we not try to hijack Tesla’s OTA features to disrupt their economy?

[TheDong]

If that's a normal thing to do, why aren't we hijacking russian teslas right now? Why haven't we made Microsoft push an OTA update to windows to bluescreen all military PCs in Russia? Why haven't we made Google and Apple push Android/iOS updates that cause all phones in Russia to crash?

I'm confident that even if at war with China, the US would not hijack random civilian cars, yes. That's absolutely absurd.

[ben_w]

> why aren't we hijacking russian teslas right now?

The USA isn't at war with Russia right now, despite what Russia may think about NATO (despite Ukraine still not even being in it) and proxy wars.

[rootusrootus]

> why aren't we hijacking russian teslas right now

You mean Ukrainian Teslas. We are currently on Russia's side.

[JumpCrisscross]

> the US would not hijack random civilian cars

Of course we fucking would. Maybe not in a shooting match, which I guess means a proxy war. But if we went to war? If Americans were dying? It would be ridiculous not to.

Do you think China would permit vehicles it could disable to allow Americans to travel to and from jobs that might involve attacking it? Do you think they have some moral obligation to allow that?

[epolanski]

Again, as other users pointed out, Chinese manufacturing is in everything networking related from 5g antennas to switches and routers.

Yet we don't ban those on security concerns.

Thus, this points to the fact that it's merely being scared of competition, not security.

[ben_w]

> Yet we don't ban those on security concerns.

Sure about that?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-congressional-committee-...

https://www.techtarget.com/WhatIs/feature/Chinese-companies-...