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US automakers urge Congress to quickly pass law banning Chinese cars
www.reuters.com/world/automakers-urge-congress-quickly-pass-law-banning-chinese-cars-2026-09-03/Replying to @Fuswoo@lemmy.world
It makes sense. The investment in and development of EVs and EV manufacturing has been fully kneecapped by the American auto and oil industries.
If China came in, the American auto industry would be destroyed overnight due to the lack of competitive vehicles.
The propaganda of “Chinese vehicles are cheap and dangerous” only works when people don’t have the product in front of them.
Business InsiderFord's CEO said there's a reason he chose to drive a Xiaomi and not a TeslaFarley famously drove a Xiaomi SU7 for six months in 2024 and said he did not want to give it up.
Replying to @SoupBrick@pawb.social
The propaganda of “Chinese vehicles are cheap and dangerous” only works when people don’t have the product in front of them.
Plus they’d have to pass whatever requirements in the US to be sold, the same ones that the ‘domestic’ manufacturers do.
Replying to @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Is this even a concern anymore? Haven’t we pretty much gutted any requirements that would actually matter / wouldn’t already exist in Chinese cars?
Replying to @Prox@lemmy.world
There are some American safety requirements that are based on protecting the safety of the driver at the expense of everything else that cheaper vehicles might not meet.
Replying to @schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works
Could you give us some examples?
Replying to @EvergreenGuru@lemmy.world
One example is a strong A-Pillar on a car–the metal post to the left and right of the windshield. Most manufacturers meet the standard by making it really beefy and wide. It protects the driver from collision but makes collision more likely by obstructing the driver’s vision.
Car safety standards in the US are actively hostile to anyone outside a car.
Replying to @MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone
As they sell them in Europe we can be sure that that meet the more stringent European standards too. The idea that Chinese vehicles are all crap has passed its use by date.
Replying to @Greyghoster@aussie.zone
Yeah from a performance and safety standpoint I don’t think there’s much difference. There is some argument that repair parts availability might be worse with Chinese vehicles, but the usual domestic manufacturers are also actively hostile to repairs now anyway so I don’t know how different that will really be.