Recently, the Jiangxi Provincial Expressway Administration issued a notice: Tesla cars are prohibited from driving on the highway, which has attracted widespread attention and heated discussions. It is said that it is forbidden to use a certain type of model, such as diesel vehicles, such as heavy goods vehicles on high speeds, which is often the case, and we can understand it. But for no reason, a certain brand of car is forbidden to use the highway, what is this?
There is no doubt that this news is true! Because the news comes from the official Weibo of the Jiangxi Provincial Expressway Administration. The original text is: "At the request of the traffic police, the entrance of Xinqizhou Station of Changjiu Section of G70 Fuyin Expressway is temporarily prohibited from trucks with more than five axles, hazardous chemical vehicles and Tesla vehicles on the expressway. ”
Ban Tesla on the highway?
Jiangxi: Withdrawn, back to normal
Afterwards, the media directly interviewed the Jiangxi Provincial Expressway Administration, which also confirmed the news and said: This is indeed the case, the decision is only a temporary requirement, and Tesla can now pass the highway normally. And the Weibo has now been deleted. However, as for the specific details of the "temporary request", the official did not disclose.
However, recalling previous cases, this is not the first time that Tesla vehicles have been temporarily banned from driving on highways. For example, last year, some sections of Shanxi banned Tesla-branded vehicles from entering the expressway, and the incident of implementing traffic control on Tesla-branded vehicles at the entrance of the expressway was fully explained by the official because it was necessary to investigate and intercept a suspected Tesla-branded vehicle.
"Limit Tesla" incidents are frequent
The reason is the confidentiality and security of information
Whether the ban on Tesla's entry on the highway in Jiangxi Province this time is also to investigate and intercept the suspect vehicle, we do not know. But in the past few years, "ban Tesla" has become a familiar word to readers. For example, everyone is familiar with "Tesla is prohibited from entering the parking lots of government agencies, central enterprises, large state-owned enterprises, and scientific research institutes", and another example is "Tesla is prohibited from entering the parking lots of some airports and high-speed rail stations"......
This is not to "investigate and intercept suspected vehicles", so why do you want to restrict Tesla? The reason for this is inseparable from Tesla's "full of cameras" and "servers far overseas". After all, so many cameras in the whole car are in the state of "full turn-on" during driving, and these image data are uploaded to the server in real time. Then the concern about information leakage must be unavoidable.
Other countries exist
"Restricting Tesla"?
Some people here may be about to say, then we in China are worried about information leakage, and certain places can prohibit Tesla from entering, so is there a similar situation abroad? Don't say it, there really is! For example, Russia has long banned Tesla from entering military industrial units and military bases. The reason was "the fear that there are ultrasonic sensors and cameras on Tesla cars that can automatically collect information".
If you want to say that Russia is Asia (or Eastern Europe), then how do Western countries treat Tesla? In 2022, the Berlin Police Department in Germany ordered that Tesla be prohibited from entering the police headquarters, as well as the criminal police office area and other institutions to park, the reason is also "worried about Tesla's camera leakage".
"Data localization" could be
The only way to resolve security contradictions
Therefore, to put it bluntly, the restriction is not a specific brand at all! The key to everything is "where the server is located". If the server is set up in the home country, then the data supervision work is much simpler. If the server is set up overseas, and you can't supervise it, then the hidden danger is big.
As the saying goes, "You can't have the heart to harm people, but you can't do without the heart to guard against people"! Today's society has long been a "big data society," and if data supervision work is not careful, it may lead to irreparable disasters. So countries are more or less sensitive to this. The only way to solve this contradiction is probably "data localization".