OMG! And the Democrats are letting all of them vote! Plus they are paying them pennies per hour to stuff mail in voting ballots! There will be over 1 billion Democrat votes registered in every state come Election Day, you just wait!

Do you know that it is the R's who are doing the intentional transport? Like DeSantis and the governor of Texas?

No, the issue is that it's a propaganda and intelligence harvesting tool for the Chinese, who don't happen to be our friends.

Chips can have unused pathways that are only activated upon some type of signal pattern or whatever. That's what.

Right, just like all their other "plans" over the years.

They could just have blown up all the EV's. Much more economical and just as devastating.

What would happen if fall the Chinese EV's currently in the country at that point spontaneously burst into flames through their car receiving a signal that actuated an unused microchip path in some obscure code to turn on test mode and overclock the battery or something? Or 1 in 100 cars?

What level of testing do you have to do to ensure that what you are importing that is of National Strategic Importance, sheerly due to the ubiquity and closeness to nearly every American citizen, is safe? Especially when it comes with a bomb build in it?

If we don't make them, somehow. Freezing the Chinese out of the equation lessens pressure on them to change. Not that the Chinese don't *deserve* to be blocked out - they do - due to their numerous human rights, IP, and other legal violations.

However, the American car manufacturers will sit on their fat lazy asses and make profits, not better, cheaper cars if the Chinese cars are tariffed. Unless part of that bill is a tasking and penalty schedule for American manufacturers to match Chinese progress and prices.

Nope.

Full tear downs of the vehicles would be required, on a regular basis, to ensure that bad things aren't being inserted. That includes any and all chips that are in the vehicle.

It's just a massive vulnerability hole. Makes me think of that Dr. Who episode where the bad guy had control of the cars.

So you have a designer on board. Good enough. And a hype leader. That does not make a company.

Can you create anything meaningful that people will carry with them? Why not just use the cell phone? Are they going to create another device for people to carry? Or will this be a home unit, like a laptop or desktop or alexa?

Any way you slice it, the hardware interface isn't going to be the magic sauce. People will buy whatever works in their budget. I doubt that this new company can create the effect of Apple, which is about their only hope.

>A billion in funding means you're very, very much on the hook to your investors

So what? That doesn't mean you can't fail!

>Robotics will eventually be cheaper than people for most manual labor tasks.

But they are not now, nor will they be for quite some time to come.

Sorry, humans are a lot more than just their training data. Try again.

>It's a very hard problem to solve.

So, scalable buttons are a very hard problem to solve? I'd call it a solved problem 30 years ago!

> That likely hurt the overall market in the US...

Of Teslas, yes. Maybe a very small knock on to others, maybe they went up a bit due to Musk coming out but many people who wanted one already got one and there is going to be a lull until affordable good ranged models are widely available just like normal cars for sales to pick up I think.

You have to separate the products of the new tool from how it does it to see the facade.

That's all.