US moves to ban cars with Chinese tech

Hand inserting a car key into a white car door lock

Anna Kim
Americans won’t be able to use the foreign-hackers-tampered-with-my-car excuse when pulled over for speeding. The US plans to ban cars with Chinese software on national security grounds, the Biden administration announced yesterday.
The Commerce Department said that the proposed rule—which would all but guarantee that Chinese auto brands will never become household names in the US—would be for safety reasons rather than economic competition. Officials believe the Chinese government could use smart cars to track Americans’ movement or cause road mayhem through cyber sabotage.
Do not enter, Chinese cars
The proposed rule applies to all vehicles on public roads, including trucks and buses, that are connected to the internet or navigation systems—i.e., most modern cars and all autonomous vehicles. The measure would also outlaw cars with Russian software, as well as hardware parts from China or Russia.
While Chinese vehicles are currently even rarer than clean bathrooms on American roads, the software ban is future-looking and would go into effect for 2027 models.
The hardware parts, used by some non-Chinese car brands, will be prohibited starting with 2030 models.
On the economic front…the US recently quadrupled tariffs on Chinese EVs to 100% in order to protect American automakers from what US officials claim are unfairly subsidized cars.—SK

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