{"id":70444,"date":"2022-11-22T15:35:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T13:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=70444"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T23:20:07","slug":"us-lawmakers-push-to-place-robo-cars-on-national-security-threat-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/us-lawmakers-push-to-place-robo-cars-on-national-security-threat-list\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers push to place robo-cars on national-security threat list"},"content":{"rendered":"

US lawmakers urge scrutiny of autonomous driving technologies imported from China for potential national security threats. Wired<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

Representative August Pfluger, a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives, sent the accompanying letter to the NHTSA<\/span>. The congressman asked the regulator to answer a number of questions related to evaluating national-security threats posed by Chinese companies.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

\n

\u00abI remain concerned that the lack of US oversight in autonomous-vehicle technologies has opened the door for foreign state espionage on American soil,\u00bb he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

Pfluger argues that the previously granted permits to test autonomous drones in the United States and the lack of regulators’ oversight over data will lead to leaks to the PRC.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

The congressman stressed that China could use autonomous and connected vehicles to embed its systems and technologies into American infrastructure. He believes that next-generation vehicles will be able to photograph numerous critical sites across the country.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas also said that communications under the control of nondemocratic states are a dangerous instrument.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

FBI Director Christopher Wray said that China has stolen more data from the United States than all other countries combined.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

Pfluger also said that the new Congress will increase pressure on Chinese companies operating in the United States.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

\n

\u00abTikTok and Huawei demonstrate the CPC<\/span>\u2019s intention to use whatever means are necessary to collect American data and transmit it back to Beijing\u00bb, he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

Democratic Senator Chris Coons also said that authorities’ attention will focus on the platform TikTok, which “drains vast amounts of data for use as a tool of state power,” he said.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

In September, Nvidia and AMD banned selling processors to Chinese firms<\/a> for supercomputers and AI workloads.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

In October, the US government imposed new restrictions<\/a> on the supply of AI chips to the PRC.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

In the same month, experts said that American sanctions will slow the development of robo-cars<\/a> in China.<\/p>\n

\\n\\n<\/p>\n

Subscribe to ForkLog AI news on Telegram: ForkLog AI<\/a> \u2014 all the news from the world of AI!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US lawmakers urged scrutiny of autonomous driving technologies imported from China for potential national security threats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,133,1522,26],"class_list":["post-70444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-china","tag-transport","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"8","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70446,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70444\/revisions\/70446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}