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by pjc50 15 hours ago
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.
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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

You see them occasionally in southern California with Mexican plates
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

> 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?