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BEIJING – Local Chinese authorities have lifted restrictions on Tesla cars after the Chinese-made vehicles met the country's data security requirements, the company announced on Sunday.
The milestone comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk arrives in Beijing for an unexpected meeting with Chinese Premier Li Qiang during the city's first major auto show in four years. Brought upon arrival.
New data security requirements for “connected cars” will be announced in November and will apply to vehicles launched in 2022 and 2023 that automakers will voluntarily submit to inspection, the center said.
The rules test whether vehicles anonymize facial recognition data outside the vehicle, do not collect cockpit data by default, process that data inside the vehicle, and prominently notify users about the processing of their personal information. To do. Tesla was among the first automakers to meet data compliance requirements.
Tesla announced in a press release that it localized data storage at its Shanghai data center in 2021 and passed the international standard for information security ISO 27001 after review by a third-party auditing organization.
Musk's visit to China on Sunday raised hopes that Tesla's Full Self-Driving driver assistance software could soon be available in the country.
However, JL Warren Capital CEO and Head of Research Junheng Li told X He said it was “extremely unlikely” that a “supervised” version of the FSD would be deployed in China.
He pointed out the challenges Tesla faces in supporting local operations of its software as a foreign corporation in China. Li said there is “no strategic value” for the Chinese government to support the domestic deployment of FSD when there are many high-quality domestic alternatives, such as Xpeng's driving assistance software.
According to state media, Premier Li visited Xiaopeng and other companies at the Beijing Motor Show on Sunday and called for innovation and demand to boost production.
Tesla will similarly not be exhibiting at this year's auto show after protesters stood on top of the company's cars during the 2021 auto show in Shanghai. The show alternates between Beijing and Shanghai each year and was never held. In 2022, due to the effects of the new coronavirus pandemic.
