Spies in our cars, YouTube’s dangerous precedent and other commentary

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China watch: Spies in Our Cars? “The latest threat” from China is “a technology, soon to be ubiquitous, called LIDAR,” argues Nadia Schadlow at The Free Press — “a system of complex sensors that can, for instance, serve as the ‘eyes’ for a self-driving vehicle.” Hesai, the tech’s “leading manufacturer,” supplies “12 of the top 15 autonomous driving companies.” And “the Chinese government likely sees in Hesai another means to capture information from the West” — like “detailed geospatial maps” generated by LIDAR’s networked sensors of military bases and other sensitive areas where autonomous vehicles go. “America today is beholden...