Posted on 11/02/2025 1:13:47 AM PST by UMCRevMom@aol.com
A city had a rude awakening when it tested its electric buses for security flaws.
Some cities have gone all-in on their dedication to renewable energy and electric public transportation, but discovering that a jurisdiction does not actually control its own public property likely was not part of the idea.
This turned out to be exactly the case when Ruter — the public transportation authority for Oslo, Norway — decided to run tests on its new Chinese electric buses.
Approximately 300 e-buses from Chinese company Yutong made their way to Norway earlier this year, with outlet China Buses calling it a "core breakthrough" in Chinese brands' global reach.
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Kinda like windows 7,8,9,10,11?? Turned off unless you pay for a subscription?
THAT is the CCP.
China just can’t help itself.
Read the clickbait article about dumbasses @ Ruter:
“As a temporary fix, Ruter revealed the buses can be disconnected from the internet by removing their SIM cards to assume “local control should the need arise.””
Easy enough to replace the electronics.
This is your stop. No, really. This is everyone’s stop. Get out.
Norway is an ideal nation for electric vehicles. 95% of its electricity comes from hydro power. 90% of new car sales are EVs. They have always been very strong Tesla buyers.
With population 8 million or so, they have hydropower up the wazoo and same for oil they get from offshore wells. They suffer from an embarrassment of riches. This is why their rich man’s hobby is to be strong backers of Muslim Palestinians, and love to rag on Israel and lecture the Jews there.
With all their hydro, natgas and crude, this gifted Norway (which has millions of bored Norwegians) with a sky high clowns rating.
The same as our Chinese power turbines and the like, presumably.
Unless the doors do not open...
This is part of the CCP Revolution. If they learn political opponents have their vehicles, BOOM, they just call and stop the vehicle. They can even drive the vehicle itself to the salvage yard when there is a repossession if the vehicle is severely underwater instead of it being acquired by a further owner who will pay for it.
They want the life cycle of the vehicle to be owned exclusively by the government where car collectors will never want those vehicles, and the price of vehicles will rise in order to force us into electrics.
It’s happening after the Pelosi Revolution of 2006 changed the laws.
Norway, bitterly cold winters, battery buses.
What could go wrong...
You’d think there would be a clause somewhere in the acquisition contract to specify performance, etc.
China, busses, remote control. Ah, those sneaky Chinese commies.
Except that Big Tech is in the data mining business and deploys systems that can log every keystroke on your devices.
We’re being nudged/forced to smart appliances, so that your friendly utility (and soon to come, government) can monitor energy usage. And intervene to moderate usage as needed. For your own good, of course.
The same is happening on all our automobiles. Your smartphone? Hahahaha. At the rate we’re going, toaster ovens and microwaves will be capable of spying on us.
Fortunately Elon Musk left DOGE and backed off the government thing before he talked Trump into coming out for computer chips in everyone’s brain. Had Trump gotten on that bandwagon, MAGAworld would now be insisting that the future is transhuman and that absorption into the Borg is a conservative value. Because Trump is the infallible man.
Of course Chinese busses are wired into the system. I’m not sure I’d trust a Bic pen if it were manufactured in China.
It’s in its nature.
Wouldn’t that feature somehow violate the purchase agreement? Norway was not purchasing the product they assumed they were. Couldn’t these buses now be returned as unacceptable? In other words, it seems like a dirty trick for the Chinese Manufacturer to sell such a product, already fully compromised and never to be fully owned by the purchaser.
Have noted most vehicles have what some call the “shark fin antenna”.
Once inside the vehicle, reminds me, I’ve entered the belly of the beast?
“the buses can be disconnected from the internet by removing their SIM cards”
That’s a sentence that I never expected to hear outside of a sci-fi movie.
I've been using Microsoft since the DOS days. What subscription are you referring to?
Subscription:
The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service.
I have Win 7 and 10 on my computers. Hubby has 11. No subscriptions.
Maybe you’re referring to MS Office Suite 365...? Hubby does have to pay to renew every year, so I don’t know if that’s rented, subscription, or a hostage situation. Aggravating as hell, IMO.
I still use Office 2003, and keep the program disk with my other valuables.
LibreOffice is supposed to be good, and is free. I tried using it but it has that aggravating menu “ribbon”, so I just went back to Office 2003.
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