The only reason there isn't more outcry about John Deere is they have successfully painted farmers as the bad guy, trying to "steal" business away from the poor tractor corporation. Same goes for 3rd party repair techs performing "illegal" modifications to iPhones.
A Trojan Horse of monumental scale. China's long term goals is to run the world, they will use any opportunity they get to get economic control over other countries. Putting millions of vehicles on the road that can be disabled by the Chinese government every time we disagree is not a smart move.
And this isn't just fearmongering about Chinese tech, all modern cars have cellular modems and can be disabled to some degree by the manufacture, but China has 100% control over big businesses. If they say no commuting in Canada tomorrow, it'll happen.
This can be done without inviting AI and crypto bros (the same people) into Canada. Electric car chargers can be required to follow a charging profile put out by the supply authority, then as people go to bed at night chargers can be ramped up and the base load increased.
It could be, but it could also be trivial given the 8x lead consumption in the 80's.
I think the whole protein powder industry is a fad but having the CBC legitimize claims like this is how you feed anti-science smooth brains. They get to point at the 'health product' and call foul because the CBC said there is killer lead in it. It took seconds to find the Canadian lead numbers, the CBC could have done the same to give context.
A single serving of these protein powders contained between 1,200 and 1,600 percent of CR’s level of concern for lead, which is 0.5 micrograms per day.
Canadians consume on average 0.1ug per kg bodyweight per day so that 0.5ug 'level of concern' is bullshit.
Do you lock your door? Why, people don't just go into other people's houses, they're not inclined to do so.
The point is having vehicles vulnerable to such trivial abuse is unacceptable. It only takes one cunt who decides that he wants to randsomeware every Toyota in the world to spoil the party.
Boo fucking hoo, China is the IP theft capital of the world. Their entire export economy is based on using slavery to build designs they stole from others. There is a reason that security conscious companies do their final board assembly (installing custom silicon and flashing ROMs) in North America, if it was done in China, with the rest of the board, there would be clones on the market within a week.
Modern cars expose the engine/body control CAN bus through the fucking headlights. You don't need to be in the car and it doesn't need to be on for you to have the same or more access than the OBDII port.
It doesn't matter what the country of origin is, someone is gonna find a way to break OTA updates, gain access via exposed wireless networks or just pop off a CAN bus controlled light and plug in. How long before someone pushes a malicious update that causes the ABS to disable or degrade braking to near 0%, or just throw the electronic power steering full left whenever the speed exceeds 101km/h?
There are a few good defcon talks where it has been shown that the engine control and body control can be accessed and modified via the "infotainment" system (the one I saw specifically was Jeeps).
Every manager and supervisor drives one of these giant fucking abominations. The guys who actually work have vans, they hold more stuff and use less gas.
If Chinese manufactures can exceed Canadian standards, provide spare parts for a minimum of 10 years from the date of manufacture, provide a minimum of 10 years of software support/updates, AND allow all software to be audited for both safe function and security. Then sure. Bring on the cheap EVs.
(But not even our current domestically produced vehicles meet those requirements)
The only reason there isn't more outcry about John Deere is they have successfully painted farmers as the bad guy, trying to "steal" business away from the poor tractor corporation. Same goes for 3rd party repair techs performing "illegal" modifications to iPhones.