It is the law in China that all chinese companies must support state espionage. This is the same reason there have been moves to ban tiktok in the US.
And this is definitely not politics. This is a national security issue, and I don't want the CCP to have my data, or have control over my car. Can you imagine a situation where we are in open conflict with them and they shut down all our cars? Sure, that is unlikely, but in war anything is possible and the unlikely becomes likely.
I'm with you this car looks great and will perform better than MME GT because they are already offering OTA updates in EU for the Polestar 3. Add in that this will be made in US its will be a big seller IMO. Comparing to the Macan is a good point I think that is who they are targeting since Polestar sells well in Europe.
I don't either, but Snowden showed us our own government snoops on us via backdoors in Gmail, Youtube, social media, etc... Not to mention Tesla employees recently shown to snoop on private customer videos.
I just can't get over the lack of a rear window! What if the camera lens is blocked by grime or dust or salt. Plus I bet I'll get motion sickness looking at the video camera rear view mirror.
If the camera lens is blocked, I think I'd notice that right away and would get back out of the vehicle to clear it up.
With current technology, a camera instead of a window or mirror is an inane idea. The processing speed in frames per second of reading, transferring, and displaying data from the camera to the screen is way too low and too unreliable to be used in place of speed-of-light technology like mirrors and windows. (Source: I'm a remote sensing scientist who works in the visible light and near-IR range and with advanced cameras).
