this post was submitted on 05 Sep 2026
79 points (97.6% liked)

Technology

87877 readers
3189 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
79
Auto Companies Call For Ban On Chinese-Made Cars (tech.slashdot.org)
submitted 2 days ago by technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
39 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

A group representing American automakers sent a letter (PDF) Thursday to congressional leaders asking for a "permanent ban" on Chinese-made cars in the U.S. John Bozzella, the Alliance for Automotive Innovation's CEO and president, described in the letter China's manufacturing industry as "rooted in a well-documented pattern of unfair trade, subsidies, intellectual property theft and surveillance." Bozzella addressed his request to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.), Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) -- urging them to back a "permanent ban on the sale, import and manufacture of Chinese connected vehicles," before the 119th Congress concludes in January.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 48 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Maybe if the US auto industry spent the last 10-15 years innovating and reinvesting instead of paying dividends and stock buybacks, it'd not be dying on its arse right now.

Made their own bed, and expecting the US consumer to keep buying overpriced swill.

[–] buzz86us@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Reminder we bailed GM out AFTER they crushed thousands of cars that people wanted to buy

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What are you talking about? The American auto industry has done plenty of innovations over the past decades. They've innovatively made trucks that are 6' tall at the hood, and also have turned every brand of car into a SUV.

[–] _NetNomad@fedia.io 13 points 2 days ago

don't forget the advances in headlight technology. traffic will be a solved problem once cars can vaporize each other with their high beams

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

un-friendshape-maxxing

I do not know where all the friendly bubble-shaped cars went. I don't want an angry cube shaped like a battering ram, I want 4 armchairs with the most smooth, slick shape for low drag and impact softness wrapped around it.

If I could just buy a chinese EV I'd buy the Li Mega but its simply not allowed.

[–] Meatwagon@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

All the non-bubble shaped cars have such shit visibility too to the point that cameras are necessary now.