China stops networked vehicle data going offshore under new infosec rules
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/08/13/china_networked_car_rules/
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Data security is front and centre in the [1]rules , with manufacturers required to store data generated by cars – and describing their drivers – within China. Data is allowed to go offshore, but only after government scrutiny.
Manufacturers are also required to name a chief of network security, who gets the job of ensuring autonomous vehicles can't fall victim to cyber attacks. Made-in-China auto-autos are also required to be monitored to detect security issues.
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Over-the-air upgrades are another requirement, with vehicle owners to be offered verbose information about the purpose of software updates, the time required to install them, and the status of upgrades.
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Behind the wheel, drivers must be informed about the vehicle's capabilities and the responsibilities that rest on their human shoulders. All autonomous vehicles will be required to detect when a driver's hands leave the wheel, and to detect when it's best to cede control to a human.
If an autonomous vehicle's guidance systems fail, it must be able to hand back control.
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Interestingly, the regulations only encourage use of China's BeiDou satellite navigation system, leaving open the possibility of also tapping into signals from Galileo, GPS and even Russia's GLONASS.
Manufacturers are asked to scrutinise their own work rigorously, and to stop their efforts and conduct rectification works if they're not compliant.
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News of the rules emerged on the same day that Chinese search giant Baidu [9]announced robust Q2 results. Revenue reached $4.86 billion, with the company's cloud growing at 71 per cent year on year – rather faster than the 20 per cent companywide growth rate.
To justify that somewhat odd segue, know that Baidu also revealed that its own [10]Apollo autonomous vehicles clocked up 7.5 million test miles – up 152 per cent year over year – and that the tech has received 278 autonomous driving permits around China.
Baidu also announced a deal with Chinese automaker and autonomous car leader Geely, which will use the company's cloud services for a private cloud solution and "other cloud applications, to enable Geely to leverage Baidu's AI to optimize its manufacturing capabilities and provide cloud services to its automotive suppliers and customers." ®
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I long for the days of yore...
Back when we had to manually crank-start our automobiles, manually adjusting the choke and fuel rate and all the other bits to make the engine run, and there wasn't so much as an electronic butterfly to render the vehicle dead. Those were the days when automobiles were real automobiles, men were real men, and little green aliens were REAL little green aliens...
Re: I long for the days of yore...
Back when you paid your money and owned a product for life, and loved and maintained it for life, and no-one could remotely fiddle with, modify, update, downgrade, monitor, slurp, brick, upsell, downsell, or generally feck around with it.
Re: I long for the days of yore...
I long for ... I don't.
I have clear memories of a lot of reasonably adept American males trying to start engines on a collection of those computerless cars that had been sitting at a campground above 8000ft for a few days. The procedure was to try to start normally Then when that failed -- which it almost always did -- open the hood, remove the aircleaner, wedge the automatic choke open with a screwdriver (In the 1960s, you didn't go out into the wilds without a few basic tools). Then you trickled a small amount of gasoline into the carburator from the gallon can of gasoline you had stashed in your trunk next to your tent, sleeping bag and beer. Then you crossed your fingers, hit the starter and, if the battery held out, the engine would eventually catch and, if you were lucky, continue to run. If it didn't, you tried again until it did start or the battery died. A similar procedure sometimes worked in sub-freezing weather.
Today is better. It has taken a few decades, but the modern electronics have things right, and cars usually just start in any sane environmental conditions.
But you're right. Tomorrow may be worse if we don't somehow restrain corporate bad behavior.
Good to see China embracing security, so long as we leave ours open for them to hack.
Chief of network security
That is one job I would be very wary of taking in China. Over here, if a car gets hacked, it's "Oh well, we'll try better next time".
Over there, it's "Here's the invoice for the bullet".
Aside from that, and aside from sending data back to China, I rather like those rules. Ensuring vehicle data security is something I've been waiting for my European car makers to declare themselves on, but all they seem to want to do is ensure that every car's entertainment system is firmly embedded in the CAN bus.
Booo.