The news that Tesla vehicles were banned from airport parking lots has attracted widespread attention. The reason for this restriction is that the airport is a military-civilian shared airport and has a high degree of secrecy. As a new energy vehicle, Tesla vehicles are equipped with multiple cameras that can monitor the surrounding environment in real time and upload data to the cloud. Although China requires Tesla to store data domestically, there is still a risk that the data will be transferred to its headquarters in the United States. Taking into account the peculiarities of military airfields, the entry of Tesla vehicles was banned in order to prevent intelligence leaks.
This isn't the first time Tesla vehicles have been restricted. Earlier, a highway in Shanxi issued a notice restricting the entry of Tesla vehicles, but it was later canceled by the local traffic police department. According to the traffic police department, the move was only to prevent the suspect from escaping. Previously, criminals fled the scene in Teslas, and in order to quickly solve the case, the traffic police department implemented this restriction.
Recently, Shandong Expressway also clearly requires that Teslas, vans and trucks be prohibited from entering
In addition, the issue of U.S. intelligence penetration into China also brings some context to restrict the entry of Tesla vehicles. The United States has reportedly deployed more than 100,000 intelligence officers in China to spy on them. Road information security is an important part of national information security, if Tesla is allowed to collect mainland road data at will, it will not be able to ensure national security. In the context of the current Sino-US intelligence war, strengthening control over Tesla is a necessary measure.
Faced with this limitation, some Tesla owners have come up with alternative ways to deal with it. They secretly changed Tesla's logo to other brands, such as NIO and BYD. That way, Tesla vehicles won't be banned from airport parking lots. This may be "clever", but legally and morally speaking, it is not encouraged. After all, the core features and safety systems of Tesla vehicles have not changed, and changing the logo is only a superficial change, not a substantive problem.
In the context of Tesla vehicles being banned, we should also think more about data security and national security. As an advanced new energy vehicle manufacturer, Tesla should strengthen the protection of data to ensure that user data is not misused. At the same time, the government should also strengthen the supervision of technology enterprises to ensure national security and provide a better environment for scientific and technological innovation.
In short, the ban on Tesla vehicles from airport parking lots was motivated by national security concerns. Tesla owners changing their logo to another brand is just one response, but it doesn't change the substantive issues. While developing science and technology, we should also pay more attention to data security and national security, and find a better balance between the organic combination of science and technology and security.