The United States Department of Commerce has proposed prohibiting key Chinese software and hardware in connected vehicles on American roads due to national security concerns, a move that would in effect bar Chinese cars and trucks from the US market. The planned regulation, proposed on Monday, would also force American and other major automakers in years ahead to remove key Chinese software and hardware from vehicles in the US. President Joe Biden's administration has raised concerns about data collection on US drivers and infrastructure by connected Chinese vehicles and potential foreign manipulation of vehicles connected to the internet and navigation systems. In February, the White House ordered an investigation. The proposed prohibitions would prevent testing of self-driving cars on US roads by Chinese automakers, extend to vehicle software and hardware produced by Russia, and could be extended to other US adversaries.

Chinese automakers are starting to equip electric cars with camera drones. For now, this drone integration is aimed at content creators who want to collect videos of themselves driving. These systems typically enable one-click filming of a moving vehicle, with the action viewable live on the car's interior display as well as recorded for posterity. The flights can also be voice-controlled by the (distracted) driver. The 150,000 Yangwang U8 plug-in hybrid SUV from BYD, the world's largest maker of electric vehicles, sports a DJI drone stored and charged in a dedicated roof space capped with a Thunderbirds-style slide-away panel.

Two of the most intriguing, young companies in the molting auto industry have joined forces to produce a sleek, screen-stuffed, self-driving SUV by 2020. And it'll be fully electric, too, with a 300-mile range that matches the most long-legged of Teslas. It's a bold ambition to be sure, but on paper, not such a crazy one. The car bits come from Byton, the newly launched Chinese automaker that showed its first prototype at CES last month. The ride comes stuffed with a 49-inch screen and a bevy of buzzy keywords: connected, shared, transformative, and above all, smart.

A Chinese automaker announced the successful road trip of its self-driving cars. Two of the vehicles have completed the travel across China, which lasted for six days and covered more than 1,200 miles. Chinese automaker and Ford's partner Chongqing Changan Automobile Co. announced the successful road trip of its self-driving car. The vehicle traveled from Chongqing in Southwest China to Beijing, which is in the northeast. The journey covered more than 1,200 miles (almost 2,000 kilometers) and lasted for six days - that's an average of 200 miles (321.8 kilometers) a day.