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    Gli ingegneri europei continuano a trovare un kill switch segreto negli autobus cinesi

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    1. Specialist_Pomelo554 on

      Get them to guarantee there is no kill switch. Make payments only after 1 year and contingent on not finding any kill switches. Get free buses.

    5. cohana1215 on

      This is so dumb. Travel to the mines to check for GSM connection.. Just trace wires from battery, use flir camera if you need to, figure out which chip is the ram one, desoldier it and then read it. Besides, this is the standard for ALL “smart” devices. And they didn’t even write if the thing was intentionally hidden or tried to do anything nefarious, beside being standard dumb firmware update controller.

      Last time I got worked up about this is when I read how popular smart vacuum robots send your floor layout to china, because supposedly their onboard computer is too weak to process data from sensors locally. The real fix to this is that EU should mandate every smart device should have an option to be made operable in disconnected mode if that family of products historically didn’t need connectivity – suddenly TVs, fridges, cars, vacuums, etc would be less annoying and have no kill switches on top of that.

    6. AfterSwordfish6342 on

      This is such a clickbait title, literally every modern car(and most devices even) phone home to their manufacturer for disgnostics, updates and often advertisement/ user analysis(see tesla, honda scandals in the us a yesr or two ago) this isnt some chinese conspiracy to cripple european public transport as preparation for an invasion. Its not even a killswitch, Its just fearmongerig. If the dutch bus phones home to the netherlands its all fine and dandy but because its china its some consiracy

    7. serce__ on

      Now I wonder what kind of incredible stuff would we find in chinese personal cars

    8. Few-Interview-1996 on

      I find the article slightly disingenuous.

      It says this connection is standard, though perhaps a little overzealous. So far, so miserable.

      It also says that “there’s no legal mechanism for a Chinese company to say “no” to Beijing. If the Chinese state decides that paralyzing transport infrastructure in a NATO country is necessary for national security, Yutong would be legally obligated to execute that command.” I have a funny feeling that this would apply to all countries.

    11. redux44 on

      “Critics (and the manufacturers themselves) are quick to point out that this technology is standard. They are right. This is standard practice. New vehicles regularly send and receive data. If we judged this purely on engineering, the Chinese buses are doing exactly what they are supposed to do.”

      So a lot of this is clickbait.

      Rest of the article goes into a scenario of war involving China and Norway (lol) where China demands info from a Chinese company.

      Didn’t really address issue that they could simply remove the Sim card if the are so paranoid about war….

      And every country’s intelligence system can force their corporation to give up info in the pursuit of national security. If you think NSA isnt getting info about EU nations with help from US tech sold to EU…

      Anyway they can have much fewer EV stuff if they want made in EU stuff only or demand no communication involving battery and accept poor support services.

      Or just maybe drop the warmongering mindset and realize China isnt going to start a war with China.

    12. morbihann on

      How is this not a breach of contract and if you have already paid the full price, never again order from PRC related company ?

    13. iTmkoeln on

      Anyways we should not panic and do like westbahn and order busses and rolling stock from ccp businesses like CRRC (that look oddly like a wish variant of the KISS 3 from Stadler Rail).

      Just incase they forgot the Killswitch there

    15. ARPcPro on

      Just hire other chinese or russians hackers to jail-break the bus. Problem solved. Or flash a custom ROM to run the engine. The chinese manufacturer for sure cloned the bus and software from somewhere.

    16. Lofi_Joe on

      Maybe its time yo start making our own day life electronics?

    17. series-hybrid on

      Buy the buses with no controller and an interface that allows the owners to plug-in a European controller.

    18. VoihanVieteri on

      What is the purpose of it? To stop busses, for what end?

    19. topgeezr on

      Obvious fearmongering.

      But laws are needed to define what a customer is entitled to expect when a connected product loses connectivity or the manufacturer stops supporting it.

    21. PoppedCork on

      Shock horror China isn’t a reputable country to buy products from

    24. Prize-Grapefruiter on

      yep McDonald’s does that. only one company can repair their ice cream machines. that’s why they are always broken.

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