I think there's room in the market for a back to basics car company that takes out all this bs, goes back to crank windows and all that crap and sells new vehicles for an affordable cost with a good warranty.
It would probably crush today.
Edit: I got like 400 responses saying "slate" ok I get it you can stop
There's some logic behind it, but not the way US has handled it. Not by a long shot.
Simply put, there's strong incentive to prevent any further loss of the market to China from similar practices that companies have used to kill other businesses in the US. Like Amazon, Wallmart etc. Also China has already managed to do that, by undercutting most manufacturing costs, they've effectively killed most US based manufacturing. Vehicles are one of the few things US actually still makes.
The reason it's such a big issue is because if US loses all its local vehicle manufacturing to China, then China can flip the switch and raise their prises or worse, just threaten ending shipping to the US. That's not a position you want a country the size of US to be in. Things are already bad enough, something as critical as vehicles would make it worse.
This basically means the blocks are to stop China from gaining more control AND to give incentive for companies to not just move everything to China. Because US has already fucked up on enough fronts, they can't give up whatever is left. It makes sense, China isn't exactly known for not abusing positions of power and companies are known for going where things are cheapest.
There's even more layers to it, like how China could undercut competition by selling to the US at a loss, because they effectively have total control in that situation. They also have just generally cheaper work force, due to horrid worker rights. In all honesty, US should have been firmer against this stuff from the beginning with all manufacturing, and this applies to EU as well. Cheap products shipper from over seas massively harmed local manufacturing and it was achieved with what is practically slave labour. We shouldn't have ever been okay with that, but the short term is just too tempting for greedy businesses, corrupt governments and uninformed consumers alike.
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u/burge4150 10h ago edited 4h ago
I think there's room in the market for a back to basics car company that takes out all this bs, goes back to crank windows and all that crap and sells new vehicles for an affordable cost with a good warranty.
It would probably crush today.
Edit: I got like 400 responses saying "slate" ok I get it you can stop