Yes of course, but today's japanese and korean cars are well renowned and considered top in class, what about Xiaomi and other chinese smartphone brands ?
Severely lagging behind Apple and Samsung and price-to-quality ratio it's kinda meh, completely different evolution.
> The EU will probably do the same within max 5 years, European car brands are about to be wiped up if they don't
Currently chinese cars are perceived as super low quality and the only strong selling point they have is the price, as they had when Huawei, Xiaomi and other brands entered the smartphone market.
If I look at BYD catalogue in the italian website I can see:
- the Dolphin starting from about 36k€ when there's the Peugeot e2008 starting from 31k€ and FIAT 600 starting from 31k€ as well
- the Atto 3 starting from about 42k€ when rumors say the Peugeot e3008 will start from about 46k€
- two higher end models which are perfectly matched by BMW offerings at the same price and with comparable performance, not even looking at other premium brands such as Audi or Mercedes
I specifically made the comparison with BYD but I'm happy to give a look at other brands you could suggest.
Even considering chinese carmakers pricing power and old school carmakers lagging behind, I honestly can't see anything disrupting here.
ps: Asian phone manufacturers is much different from China phone manufacturers given that in EU all put together they barely reach Samsung market share.
On the same note, let's not forget there are many established asian carmakers outside China ready to take their slice of the cake.
Stellantis has already been selling hundreds of thousands of BEVs in the last couple of years and changing the entire offer of several brands they own, a process they are gonna complete in a few years, namely 3/4.
They also have a strong position on commercial vehicles as well.
Their position is everything but weak, considering they are indeed a "legacy automaker".
I wonder if people using it for writing code are running docker at all, you read so many comments on HN of how the battery life is incredible (on any thread about comparisons between any Mac and any other laptop) while in my experience a full charge Macbook Air M2 lasts about 6 hours with Docker running instead of the usual 15 it lasts when its off.
It's just the same good old EU BAD -> everything coming from there BAD.
There's even a comment under this post on how GDPR "degrades the web in the name of privacy", I guess trackers are just way better then cookie banners after all.
Then you read Utah and California have comparable proposals yet I've seen a single mention of them in the whole comment section.