UK : Fear of Chinese Electric Cars Remote ‘Kill Switch’

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https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/warning-that-chinese-electric-car-invasion-could-paralyse-britain/ar-AA1exBnE

A Acoming influx of Chinese electric cars represents a security risk as they could be remotely controlled to “paralyse” Britain, according to the head of the industry’s professional body.

Britons face “major security issues” from Chinese cars, warned Professor Jim Saker, President of the Institute of the Motor Industry.

In a report due to be shared with car makers and regulators, Prof Saker said there was “no way” of stopping Chinese cars coming under remote control.

He said: “The car manufacturer may be in Shanghai and could stop 100,000 to 300,000 cars across Europe thus paralysing a country.”…

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Don’t need electric cars to paralyse the UK, when the powers that be are already doing that. SNAFU

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Nibbled To Death By Ducks, NaNoNyMouse, Myst

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We already have self driving electrically charged cars here in California. San Francisco has a posse of activists out on them to disable their mobility and it has stymied the makers of these cars. Just place an orange construction cone on top of the hood and it disables the car. No remote tactics necessary. What were they thinking. It wasn’t enough Google took control over our devices, now they’re running wild and crazy on our roads.

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Strange, I thought that here in the UK we were more concerned about surveillance cameras:

• UK policing ‘shot through’ with Chinese surveillance technology
• UK to strip Chinese surveillance cameras from sensitive government sites
• UK government issues edict to remove Chinese-made surveillance cameras
• UK to remove Chinese surveillance cameras from sensitive government sites as Beijing hits back
• Britain to remove Chinese surveillance gear from government sites

I also thought that we were worried about Tesla’s crashing on autopilot.

Now we have to worry about cars that haven’t yet arrived on these shores?

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NaNoNyMouse

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Rick Corbett wrote:

I thought that here in the UK we were more concerned about surveillance cameras:

The UK is more worried of encryption and wants a backdoor

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People should be more worried about the kill switches built into Windows 10 and Windows 11 that MS can deploy at any time to stop computers from working. Users have lost all control over their OS. MS now does what it wants and blocks apps or remove apps without user permissions.

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Proof please.  Conspiracy theorists have been touting that for years.  Have you actually tried to use a computer that fails authentication?  Guess what it still works.

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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Susan Bradley wrote:

Proof please.  Conspiracy theorists have been touting that for years.  Have you actually tried to use a computer that fails authentication?  Guess what it still works.

Umm… which comment are you replying to? Who are you asking proof from Susan?

Please quote so we all don’t go off on tangents…

Also:

Conspiracy theorists have been touting that for years.

What THAT is it conspiracy theorists have been touting. Please be more specific.

Sorry but, your post was not at all clear.

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Observing the indentation of post-2577267 relative to the previous post-2577262 gives the answer.

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Susan Bradley

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