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[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

VW will always have the advantage of being from Europe. Tesla's decline has shown how much politics can influence people's purchase decisions. I know many people wouldn't consider buying a Chinese car, myself included, even while acknowledging that they're pretty good from a technical perspective.

[โ€“] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So what's your reason for not buying one? In the U.S. I'm told because they'll all explode on command, or maybe that's just what my mother born in 61 thinks. I don't think she understands how money making works

[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'd like to buy from democratic countries if possible, especially with such a large purchase. Not a huge fan of my money funding China's regime.

As for exploding on command, that's highly unlikely. Although it wouldn't be outside the realm of possibility for China to push a little OTA update that just turns all the cars off if we ever went to war against China.

[โ€“] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

China doesn't allow firmware/software on their in country products. It's all reviewed by them. No reason why the EU, country or etc wouldn't review the same. No software/firmware update gets pulled without approval on the countries/ISP approval

[โ€“] PonyOfWar@pawb.social 6 points 1 day ago

Of course it wouldn't arrive via an official approved update channel, but a backdoor. Easy to implement and hide when you write the software. Even VW put manipulated software in their cars before to fake lower emissions. Regulators didn't notice for a decade. That's even though it was being actively used, unlike a killswitch that would lie dormant until it's too late.

[โ€“] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago

Have people not learned a lesson from what happened since the 80s? The middle class disappeared in big part because manufacturing jobs were sent to Asia. Want to see US and European carmakers close their doors as well to add more shit to the shit pile the neo liberals built?