Re:China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for...
by justicezyx on Monday December 18, 2017 @12:45PM
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> Blocking mapping when the same is already accessible from space via spy and public satellites? Does not really makes sense.
Then no one needs to map the road anyway, why bother?
Re:China Blocks Foreign Companies from Mapping Its Roads for...
by i_cant_speel on Monday December 18, 2017 @01:18PM
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The satellites don't provide enough information for self driving cars while they do provide enough information to be what China is considering a national security concern.
Blocking a chip or other technology that's hard to vet is one thing.
Blocking mapping when the same is already accessible from space via spy and public satellites? Does not really makes sense.
Now, of course these cases can and should be compared, but so far it seems that citing national security issues in one case seems to be pretty baseless excuse, whereas in the other case it seems to have some merit, even if the actual ban of Chinese sourced components is ridiculous, because a lot of other things are sourced/imported from China with the same or more severe espionage potential.