China is like the EU - perpetually on the verge of collapse, if you believe the "experts".

They do this not to hide bad numbers, to be prevent the kind of thing you see happening on Wall Street all the time. They don't want a huge speculative gambling market, they don't want people betting against their economy, and they don't want people making short term decisions based on quarterly data.

If the $ sign didn't give you away, the assumption that the law works like that did. The UK is not the US, the law doesn't allow you to get around the wording like that. Courts generally interpret the intention of the law, and look for ways for it to practically implement that intention.

Such obvious fraud would be, well, fraud.

If GDPR had been properly enforced, the current style of cookie banners should have been blocked from the start.

Recital 32 states that consent cannot be forced or coerced. Putting up a big banner that obscures half the page is coercion. Making it more clicks to opt out than to accept is coercion, and what's more GDPR clearly says that everything must be opt in, not out.

It was probably marketed as a feature when they bought the busses. "Remote monitoring and diagnostics", to help warn of any maintenance issues that may arise soon, so you can plan for the bus to be off the road for a while. GPS tacking so you know where you fleet is and can show expected arrival times at bus stops.

Presumably some European bus manufacturer saw that it was being out-competed, and started spreading a bit of FUD.

It depends who you are. If you are the government, then obviously you don't consider yourself much of a threat, so the biggest risk is other nations accessing your vehicles.

If you are a citizen, the biggest threat is your own government. The Chinese government likely has little to no interest in you, but your own government certainly does.

Apple's usual problem with FRAND patents is that it's own patent portfolio is largely worthless. Nobody is going to exchange a valuable WiFi patent for a design patent on rounded corners. Apple could just pay the licencing fees, but doesn't like to.

It's not just Broadcom they have to licence from either. A lot of the WiFi 6 and 7 stuff was invented by Huawei. Apple's cellular modems require paying Huawei too.

That would be a rather extreme reaction. Would be much easier and more profitable to simply respond to requests to discontinue service to sites offering pirate manga.

The real issue here is that it was a request from a private company, not a court. The law in Japan is such that if you are made aware of something like this, there is an onus on you to look into it and decide what to do, and face the consequences if you disagree with the request. It's similar to many countries. A copyright arbitration court would be a good idea.

Electric trucks and other commercial vehicles have another big advantage over fossil - you can use them indoors with no risk of gassing everyone to death. Drive them right into the warehouse, or the mine. Do your loading and unloading in a covered, heated environment.

No issues with running refrigeration and other electrical items like lifts either, because you have a massive battery and can plug it in to charge if needed.

Europe has long distance EV trucks, and they are just fine. 1.2MW chargers too.

China developed very large EV battery packs years before we did though. They had busses with 400kWh packs back in the mid 2010s. It's actually a little surprising that it's taken them this long to electrify trucks.

It's not genetic, it's because they invest in education.

Snake oil?
I think you maybe don't know what snake oil is.

What NV is selling isn't snake oil in the slightest. Whether or not it's really needed is an entirely different discussion.
The bubble hypothesis would have you believe that they're selling Ferraris to people at the Ford dealership.
i.e., you can complain it's all a bubble, but you can't argue with the efficacy of NV GPUs at doing this job that may or may not actually be profitable.

You were good up until 5. The scenario necessarily precludes 5 by virtue of 1.

It's also about that hostile third-party being the Government that has jurisdiction over that company, which means it implicitly also includes backdoors (that could even be unknown to the manufacturer)
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Which is frankly orthogonal to a battery fire anyway.
Opening the contactor will not stop the battery fire that is underway, and the contactor remaining closed improperly is unlikely since the battery is fail-safe (requires signal for contactor to close) so a situation where the vehicle is unable to disable the battery, but a fireman is is pretty hard to imagine.

Beyond that, it's also hard to imagine that anything that will cause a fire won't also trigger over-current protection.

I think this scenario is basically entirely contrived.

There are regulatory agencies whose job it is to figure those thing out and hold manufacturers to task.

Log availability is great. Automatic export to an untrusted party is not.
The NHTSA does its just just fine with vehicles that don't export their logs overseas.