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Elissa Slotkin: “They can be remotely hacked and piloted from Beijing.”

Featuring: Elissa Slotkin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Michigan

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Fox 2 Detroit: Slotkin's Bipartisan Bill to Ban Chinese Vehicles Advances in Senate

Published | Video Starts at 01:46

And it also, you know, these cars are also a danger, as you said, from a national security perspective because they're collecting data everywhere they go. They're collecting high motion video 3D mappings as an infrastructure sites. They can be remotely hacked and piloted from Beijing. So for both economic reasons and national security reasons, this is the first bill that I dropped as a new senator. (01:46–01:50)

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Asserts that Chinese cars can be remotely hacked and controlled from Beijing.

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