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[Dormant] Electric Vehicles
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I'm surprised the article didn't go into the other factor in this dilemma: the National security angle. As we can from the past few years that car companies are becoming tech companies and tech companies become advertising companies. Mozilla released a report not too long ago that new cars these days are constantly collecting data. It would be like TikTok all over again. Allowing a hostile foreign country free rein to collect data on Americans and to use that information against us. But unlike TikTok, you just can't ban a physical object like you can software.
Sure you can. You embargo the cars. Countries do these things all the time.
The better answer is to require them to run open source software.
I mean you can. It is just a lot less convenient.