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Well, good for you. Personally I'm not buying an internet connected Chinese car. If a car has the option of spying on you, and potentially be used in a hybrid attack, I'd prefer to get a car from a western manufacturer. And not Tesla either, Musk is too unstable and seems to be influenced by the same powers that has Trump's ball in a vise.
My current car is an internet connected EV, but it sure isn't Chinese or a Tesla.
China can spy on me. I feel safer with them having my info than Musk (Or if you really want to get in the weeds, GM or Ford who's happy to share that info with big insurance and law enforcement)
Why the flying fuck would I want a western car spying on me here in China?
As I indicated by using first person singular in my comment, I was talking about me. What car you (second, singular) get is up to you.
While I did write "If a car has the option of spying on you[...]", I hope my usage of "you" as an informal pronoun was clear. I do realize that I could have used the word "one" instead, or rewritten the sentence entirely. I wrote like I speak, and I unfortunately do not speak like an English professor.
Please remind me, where did you tell me that you live in China?
In the same place you assumed I lived outside of it, I presume.
Because some American car company won't disappear you for having the wrong political opinion.
I mean american aircraft companies wouldn't that is for sure!
...unless they are boeing!
No, instead they'll let the government use you to target a bomb because you drive near someone they don't like.
Not only spying, these cars are just like all other Chinese products.
Say "I don't know what I'm talking about" without using those words.
My Milwaukee tools were made in China and they are fantastic. Sure, some cheap chinese made stuff is crap but the higher end chinese products are every bit as good japanese or western made now.
Nearly a third of the world's manufacturing is done in China. That's good stuff and crap and everything in between. Chinesium exists because of engineering for a price point, and people are cheap.
This here exactly. There's shit products made in China. There's brilliant products made in China. It's just like everything else as per the old adage: YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!
If you only want to pay shit product prices, you get shit products. A variant of "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".
"What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."