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Fearing surveillance and remote control, US to ban Chinese connected cars | The ban would start in model-year 2027 for software and MY2030 for hardware.


The ban would start in model-year 2027 for software and MY2030 for hardware.

"When foreign adversaries build software to make a vehicle [connected], that means it can be used for surveillance, can be remotely controlled, which threatens the privacy and safety of Americans on the road," said Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. Those fears were probably reasonable: it later emerged that for several years Tesla employees regularly shared with each other "sometimes highly invasive videos and images," captured by customer cars, over the company's messaging system. But this rule will require auto manufacturers in some cases to find alternate suppliers," said John Bozzella, president and CEO of the Alliance for Automotive Innovation.

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