West passes laws saying ALL cars must be connected—and then bans Chinese cars because they’re connected!

 

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West passes laws saying ALL cars must be connected—and then bans Chinese cars because they’re connected!

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QUICK HISTORY

In 1996, General Motors released the first mass market “connected car” series. Three models, the Cadillac DeVille, Seville and Eldorado, originally transmitted just voice, but by the early 2000s, they included GPS location data, remote diagnosis, sat-nav functions and so on.

The “connected car” was such an obviously good idea that connectivity changed from being an option to being compulsory.

Russia required all cars to be connected in 2017, and in 2018, the European Union added a law that ALL new cars in all member countries should transmit data, arguing that this would aid emergency services and manufacturers.

Chinese carmakers obediently obeyed, no choice—but then came an unexpected problem.

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THEY’RE CONNECTED!

Western politicians and mainstream journalists started shrieking that Chinese cars were “connected”! They TRANSMITTED INFORMATION back to manufacturers! This is an outrage!

The politicians and journalists refused to countenance the obvious response—all cars do the same thing.

The idiocy became ridiculous in recent years, and it wasn’t just people in the United States.

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PARANOID BRIT

A British MSM-believer went viral when a doorbell camera recorded her long tirade that the Chinese-made car parked in that boring suburban street was sending information about the location back to China.

(“President Xi! I am a BYD car and I am reporting that I am parked in a boring suburban street where a deeply paranoid woman is ranting!”)

This week, the U.S. military banned BYD electric vehicles from a key U.S. air base on Okinawa, a once free and independent island, now colonized by Japan and the U.S. military.

“These vehicles present an unacceptable and unmitigable risk to our personnel and our mission,” Lt. Col. Alli Stormer told Reuters.

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DRONES TOO

Incidentally, the same logical absurdity has been complained about by drone-flying clubs and emergency services in the United States. That country passed a law saying that all drones must transmit location data.

The world’s biggest dronemaker, DJI of Shenzhen, obeyed.

The US then made a huge fuss: DJI drones transmit location data! They are dangerous!

The US has now passed a new law making it illegal to import DJI drones to the US, to the dismay of drone enthusiasts and outdoor rescue services.

The west is losing its stranglehold over the world for many reasons: one of which is certainly its own small-mindedness.