Biden administration has raised serious concerns about collection of data by Chinese companies on US drivers and infrastructure as well as the potential foreign manipulation of vehicles
Banning cars only makes sense at the municipal level. It's not something that will ever be completely practical at any larger scale than that, unless you just want to completely fuck over everyone who doesn't live in a big city.
It's more important to focus on building out better public transit infrastructure. More buses, more trains, more bike lanes, more options for people to avoid using cars, while still leaving that option available for where its needed.
Blind nationalism as a cover to protect our shoddy domestic garbage companies from competition.
I'd expect nothing less.
These clowns can't even be bothered to repeal the chicken tax so we can buy a Hilux. Because our domestic planned obsolescence machines cannot compete.
Don't pretend like they can be trusted. China's lack of human rights, backdoors in hardware, hostility to it's neighbors and constant hacking attempts are a problem.
Oh, yeah, the US Federal Government would neeevvverrr put backdoors into things. Not ever. Not BlackBerry, or iPhone, or messaging apps, or anything...
My Brother in Baphomet. I live in the United States of Corporate America.
We have 800 military bases all over the world and the last time we were the good guys in any war was World War Two. And only then begrudgingly. Our govt loooooooved bad mustache man.
Right this very minute. In the year two thousand and twenty four we have a BOOMING slave labor industry and half the country wants to bring back child labor.
Please. Tell me more about how terrible China is. Do go on. I hope there's a PowerPoint. Spare not 1 detail.
Just imagine when China tries to invade Taiwan and turns off the controls for 30% of the cars on the highway as part of their first strike on the US.
Make no mistake China is already deep inside many systems and has been probing for all sorts of attacks against critical infrastructure. There is zero doubt they would exploit their cars as well.
Here I was talking to my FBI agent while in drive, turns out my Chinese monitoring agent has been getting neglected... I hate what governments have done with technology. Back to the pre digital age with them!