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[–] 110 points 1 year ago (47 children)

As much as I hate Elon, this is a terrible idea. Cheap Chinese trash mobiles built by Uyghur slave labor are not the answer.

How about we build cars in Canada instead?

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  • [–] 67 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Except they aren't trash, they're better than Teslas that's for sure.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago (17 children)

    They are still data hungry, surveillance machines that are allways online and gps tracked. We need cars without that kinda shit built in.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago

    There has been talks about forcing Chinese cars to come over disconnected. Every new car is a surveillance machine. The western brands will not be asked to disconnect anything and it will probably be illegal to do so yourself, so Chinese cars might be an actual win in that regard.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    American car company secretly send your driving data to your insurance company so they can squeeze more out from you for any minor reason they see fit. There's no reason canada insurance company won't do that. Scared about chinese car collecting your data is kinda missed the point, you should have stronger data protection instead.

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Build cars in Germany, Japan, South Korea and the like. focus on something non car you can sell to them in return. You can do anything but not everything.

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Building cars is something we already do in Canada. And there's currently a lot of capacity coming online to build electric cars. Pretty much the entire car could be sourced from Canadian parts, including the batteries. I think semi-conductors are the only thing that doesn't have a domestic source right now.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    While there are still a lot of low quality things produced en masse in China, this take is getting more and more out of date.

    South Korea and Japan used to make cheap crap too until their industrial output developed to the point the average quality was high.

    We have reached this point to a certain degree with China too. Their EVs sure as hell are better than Tesla's.

    There's a lot of high quality stuff coming out of China now, along with crap.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    LOL, have you seen the EVs that are coming out of China nowadays?

    If they were trash the EU and US wouldn’t put tariffs on them, because they wouldn’t threaten our own manufacturers no?

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