I'm all for having a cheap, high quality alternative to light a fire under the incumbents' asses, but I'm a little paranoid about the potential security aspect.

Are these cars network connected? Do they have cameras/microphones? Is the software auditable?

Imagine they become as popular as Teslas, and China decides it needs to cause some logistics chaos and flips the switch to turn each one into the equivalent of a large boulder blocking whatever lane it's currently in.

I'm not saying there _is_ such a switch, but we've already had a few scares about backdoored networking equipment.