n February 29, the Joe Biden administration directed the U.S. Commerce Department to investigate what it claimed was a “potential national security threat” posed by Chinese-made smart cars. Almost concurrently, Gina Raimondo, U.S. Secretary of Commerce, introduced an alarmist hypothetical during an interview with MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell, asking Mitchell and viewers to “imagine if there were thousands or hundreds of thousands of Chinese-connected vehicles on American roads that could be immediately and simultaneously disabled
