Federal connected-vehicle rules targeting Chinese technology will block future Polestar models unless regulations change.

Polestar will no longer be allowed to sell new vehicles in the United States beginning with the 2027 model year after the Trump administration denied the Swedish electric-vehicle maker authorization under federal rules governing connected vehicle technology, according to Reuters.

The decision essentially blocks Polestar from introducing new models in the US market as Washington continues to express national security concerns over vehicles with technology tied to China.

Other automakers with Chinese ownership have sought different courses of action. Volvo Cars received authorization from the Commerce Department in May, though the automaker said it must continue demonstrating compliance across its US lineup.

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    My car, after a free period, charges a small subscription for those services and I just paid for it today, so I can tell you that I and my partner want it enough to pay for it.

    You are part of the problem. Nothing the companies are providing justifies them spying on us or attacking our property rights, but you’re rewarding them for doing it.

        • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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          3 days ago

          This isn’t a matter of “making life better” in the sense that I am familiar with: that is, making a fairer, welcoming and livable place for everyone. This is that you and the person above have a certain preference that I don’t share, and you expect me to somehow enable you to realise that preference.

          Your desire to be able to remote start your car in a particular way is not comparable in the slightest to issues of societal justice and trying to guilt trip me into enabling your consumer choices is, again, childish. If you don’t want to pay for a service don’t pay for it. If you wish there were a service which doesn’t exist, go and make your desires known to the people who may provide it. Don’t demand that someone else foregoes their preferences to enable you.

          Doing so is as coherent as if I were to demand that you stop buying cars that aren’t green because I wish more manufacturers made green cars. I do wish that, but you don’t have any responsibility to help me with it.

          • Bluescluestoothpaste@sh.itjust.works
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            3 days ago

            Yes it’d be nice if i woke up and everything is automated and remote started, that’s how billionaires live. But this isn’t about what i like and dont like or prefer and dont prefer, this is about looking at this huge machine that is destroying people and judging it. We’re not demanding anything, just pointing out the money we pay for these conveniences literally goes to the pedophile class in control of the government (along with our personal data which they leverage to make even more money.)

            I agree nobody has any responsibility for it, (except maybe those at the very top), but I wonder if anyone’s going to step up and stop them in the name of doing what’s right. I won’t, im just a consumer schmuck like you trying to figure out how i will survive in retirement in a few decades.

            • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
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              3 days ago

              this is about looking at this huge machine that is destroying people

              I don’t think you can draw the causal chain between me paying for a service I want and anyone being “destroyed”. Or perhaps you can, but it’d be so long and indirect you could apply the same chain to buying anything from any company.