[ck2]

There is a huge startup opportunity, steal this idea:

US Governement doesn't allow BYD imports

BUT you can lease a car from Canada for a year in US

So lease BYD a year at a time with Canadian plates, etc. to US drivers

[pjc50]

Some US politicians were proposing a total ban on allowing cars of Chinese origin into the US, which is rather extreme. They don't want to risk US nationals seeing them and wanting them.

[giarc]

https://driving.ca/auto-news/driver-info/proposed-us-bill-ta...

[ck2]

Canadian snowbirds drive their cars and RVs into the US all the time all the way down to the southern states

There's just a limit to how long the car can be in the US

So lease for a year at a time from Canada

Musk himself was an illegal Canadian import so hey only fair lol

[gedy]

You see them occasionally in southern California with Mexican plates

[ck2]

There you go, so someone turn that into a frictionless service

Every year you just exchange the car/lease/plate whatever

Once enough people drive $5000 electric cars they will insist politicians allow them officially

Detroit is doomed anyway once 9 out of 10 workers is replaced with "AI" controlled bots

[ben_w]

> Detroit is doomed anyway once 9 out of 10 workers is replaced with "AI" controlled bots

As a non-American, I'd kinda assumed Detroit's car industry was already long-gone. Wasn't its industrial decline the inspiration for a bunch of dystopian films in the 80s and 90s?