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Major security concerns have been raised in Norway after safety tests revealed that Chinese-made electric vehicles can be remotely accessed and controlled by their manufacturers in China. ...

While European-made buses showed no issues, tests revealed that a Chinese-manufactured bus built by Yutong could be manipulated remotely.

The vehicles give the manufacturer direct access to its onboard systems.

The tests showed that Yutong had the ability to access the bus’s software, diagnostics, and battery systems.

Alarming, the Chinese Communist Party-aligned company could even stop or disable the vehicle entirely. ...

“The Chinese bus can be stopped, turned off, or receive updates that can destroy the technology that the bus needs to operate normally,” Tjomsland said.

He explained that while hackers or foreign suppliers cannot directly steer the buses, their ability to remotely shut them down poses a serious threat to Norway’s infrastructure. ...

In recent years, Chinese automakers have conducted road tests in the United States, collecting massive amounts of mapping and location data, information that experts believe could have strategic or military value. ...

In July, the United Nations (UN) published a chilling new report about the dangerous new frontier in terrorism.

The organization warns that driverless vehicles could be hijacked by terrorists and turned into “slaughterbots.”

The UN report is titled “Algorithms and Terrorism: The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence for Terrorist Purposes.”

According to the report, AI-powered cars, drones, and robotics could soon be weaponized by extremist groups to carry out mass-casualty attacks from a distance.