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China's Alibaba and SAIC Motor Corp have decided the country needs to get its cars connected to the Internet, and have inked a $US160 million deal to get the ball wheels rolling. According to Reuters, the joint venture between the two will be worth a billion yuan, and targets 2016 as the launch date for the Middle Kingdom's …

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  1. Steven Roper

    If any country needs automated cars

    it's China. They have far too many people to be let loose on the roads as they are. If you've ever seen pictures of that new massive freeway they built, that at 250 km long, has since become the world's largest car park, you can understand why.

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  2. Neoc

    "Such arrangements are normal costs of doing business in China, which far prefers such partnerships than straight imports, since they provide a boost to local capabilities and allows them to install back-doors and stealth-tracking software before being sold to the populace."

    That last paragraph looked unfinished. FTFY.

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    1. crayon
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      "and allows them to remove the back-doors and stealth-tracking software installed by various TLAs and FLAs before being sold to the populace."

      There, FTFY.

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  3. david bates

    SAIC.... Because they've done such a sterling job with MG....

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  4. Elmer Phud

    Why . . .

    . . .is there a donkey's penis in the logo?

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    1. PNGuinn
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      FAIL

      Re: Why . . .

      That's a rusty nail. Methinks you need to get your donkey serviced....

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