Is That a Spy in Your Car?
LIDAR mapping technology, provided by Chinese company Hesai, as seen from a self-driving Kodiak truck in the U.S. (Photo via Kodiak Robotics, Inc.)
America is already beholden to China for antibiotics, lithium batteries, and 5G equipment. Now they are cornering the market on an important technology used in self-driving vehicles.
You know what the Chinese government does really well? Spy.
Last year, a human rights group reported that the Chinese government had set up 100 secret “police stations”—seven of them in the U.S.—to spy on Chinese nationals. At the recently concluded G20 summit in New Delhi, the Chinese delegation refused to put some strangely shaped luggage through the h…
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