China bans importing Tesla vehicles into military facilities – Global

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In the shadow of issues of national security. According to the Bloomberg report, the Chinese military has banned entrepreneur Elon Musk’s brand vehicles from entering military facilities in the country due to fears of information being collected by the cameras installed in them, according to sources who received the order issued. The directive allows owners of Tesla vehicles serving in the Chinese military to park their vehicles outside military facilities.

At the same time, the Wall Street Journal reports that in addition to military personnel arriving at military installations, the Chinese government is seeking to reduce the use of Tesla vehicles in general among military servicemen, government companies operating in sensitive areas, and vital government agencies.

Tesla vehicles therefore have a number of cameras installed that help drivers to shop and see the vehicle’s environment, and are also intended for autonomous vehicle applications that are promoted by the company. The Tesla 3 and Tesla Y models also have a rear-view camera installed, which is off by default.

Musk, for his part, referred in 2019 to the same cymbal inside the car and tweeted in 2019 that “it is there for when we start competing with Uber and Lift and people will allow their car to make money for them, as part of Tesla’s autonomous fleet venture.”

This means that when the vehicles are fully autonomous, instead of a driver carrying out errands himself or transporting passengers in return for payment, he will be able to send the vehicle to perform tasks alone, while staying at home – and instead of just sitting in the parking lot. “So, in case someone ‘knocks’ your car, you can see it on video.” Musk has repeatedly talked about the value in the photographed data collected by Tesla vehicles, which may be used for autonomous vehicle applications, as noted and in accordance with the example above explained by the developer on Twitter.

The entire autonomous vehicle market relies on data collection to absorb the vehicle environment and avoid accidents and so on. Along with the use of “regular” cameras, there is also the use of thermal cameras (

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), Radars (locusts) and blades (LiDar, radars based on laser beam – such as those of the Israeli Invis, AEVA, Luminar and more). Aside from assisting the driver, the data collected by these tools also has economic value as Musk hinted. For example, in the Israeli company Autonomo, which will be issued through Spock at a value of $ 1.4 billion, they have developed a trading platform to which such data comes from car companies, and these are sold to insurance companies, among others.

And back to China and Tesla, the Wall Street Journal’s publication stated that the Chinese government’s move does not come in a vacuum, but rather after a security check of Tesla vehicles, according to people close to the issue. Power officials have found that Tesla’s sensors can keep visual recordings of the vehicle’s environment.

Of course those military personnel and security industry workers in China are not Tesla’s only customers in the country. The electric car brand also has a market besides them, and Tesla also owns a manufacturing plant in China, which it established in 2019 with an investment of about $ 2 billion.

It should be noted, however, that Tesla has experienced further friction with the Chinese authorities: users have reported many malfunctions, and even car fires, but unlike other Western manufacturers operating in China, Tesla does not cooperate with one of the local manufacturers to resolve issues with regulators. At that moment, representatives of the company in the country were summoned to a meeting by the regulators and had to provide them with explanations themselves.