Self driving cars

Shipped without connectivity

Weird

Also, can I buy a new car without telemetry? I guess I know the answer to that already.

Why don't Chinese manufacturers do the same? Sell cars without connectivity, make updates or whatever available on a website.

So Chinese automakers cannot import because they rather stay out of market than turn off connectivity?

You can import them after they're 25 years old but good luck getting parts or repairing them.

I don't think anyone is thinking Google is in doing the wrong decision. The problem is that Google, and other corporations, work with a set of rules different to normal, not corporate entities, don't. Like they can bought the most competitive cars on the global markets, while regular Americans are stuck to whatever Ford and GM want to sell them.

Only his billionaire bosses can profit. Lol

It doesn't actually seem that way. They're likely eating the tariff because of the costs of hardware redesign, which I would imagine to cost millions and a lot of testing time.

If they're getting a volume discount of 10%, then after tarrif each vehicle is probably cheaper than a whole refab.

Monopsony

Learned a new word today! 🥳

All of the cost, none of the equity. Just as capitalism demands.

Distributed burden, with the profits for the few.

What did we do with the railroad barons again? And where’s their privatised cutting-edge tech??

In this case, corporations have the exact same rules as the everyday man: you can import Chinese EVs for a 127.5% tariff. Waymo is doing exactly that, just as you can.

The title of the article (that Americans can't buy Chinese EVs buy Waymo can) is refuted by the very first paragraph of the same article.

Yeah, but do corpos have value?

New trucks are like $100K

They are Jaguar I-Pace EVs. They were natively EV to begin with. Waymo actually purchased large chunks of them through 2026, but with Jaguar basically committing suicide they needed another vehicle to work with.

The reasoning is to protect us companies from having to invest in better factories and design, any manufacturer's cars meet whatever safety standards they are designed to meet.

They are supposed to be as good or better than cars made by the US Big 3. Then once the new sodium ion batteries come out, they will be far safer.

only to some extent, it's not like the safe models aren't being blocked. I think for example, the BYD Dolphin was redesigned to meet australian compliance.

Chinese companies are willing to redesign for saftey, but the government of course has other plans.

Basically some chinese cars by their direct chinese design, might not pass US safety standards. However china has shown they are willing to modify designs to enter the market. the only reason why they aren't in the US market is because the government wont let them. Corporate has been using chinese evs (and trucks) and buses, for awhile now.

The Safest Cars On Sale In Europe Now Are Chinese EVs

Where did you hear that bullshit?

My BYD has the highest rating possible

It has to do with the cars talking to each other and perhaps eavesdropping on other vehicles, etc.

https://www.bis.gov/press-release/commerce-finalizes-rule-secure-connected-vehicle-supply-chains-foreign-adversary-threats

Washington, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) announced a final rule prohibiting certain transactions involving the sale or import of connected vehicles integrating specific pieces of hardware and software, or those components sold separately, with a sufficient nexus to the People’s Republic of China (PRC) or Russia.

BIS and its Office of Information and Communications Technology and Services (OICTS) have found that certain technologies originating from the PRC or Russia present an undue and unacceptable risk to U.S. national security. Today’s action represents the culmination of a months-long regulatory process to design, seek public input on, and ultimately finalize a measure to protect drivers and passengers on American roads.