Electric buses from the Chinese company Yutong could be remotely disabled via remote control capabilities found in the bus software, diagnostics module, and battery and power control systems.
Why put the caveat that it’s not from your country? If it has remote access, it can be remotely disabled. Maybe it’s from a designed feature, or maybe it gets hacked.
Why put the caveat that it’s not from your country? If it has remote access, it can be remotely disabled. Maybe it’s from a designed feature, or maybe it gets hacked.
People were reporting on cars being remotely accessed and disabled over 10 years ago. If it has any communication with outside systems, it is susceptible to malevolent actors.
Also cars have notoriously bad security. I doubt buses are better.
Xenophobia.
It 100% can even if from my country but if done legally i have at least some kind of recourse
Nothing i can do if china choose to disable stuff because they don’t like where i live anymore
What is the actual likelihood of the following:
IMO, that list goes from least likely to most likely, and this story is likely just FUD to reward some local manufacturer or other interest.