Well, the assertion that your vehicle may use a Russian GNSS seems to have triggered a touch of xenophobia, so I assumed the use of a Chinese GNSS may do the same.
It is reasonable to be concerned with technology provided by countries with governments who are actively trying to take us down. Neither of those you mentioned are our friends, and I try as much as possible to avoid any technology produced in those places. (I admit, it is pretty impossible to avoid all of it, but I still try.)
Sure, be concerned. But sticking your head in the sand and pretending it doesn't exist because you don't want it to is idiotic.
I think you also need to include the US on the list of countries who are trying to "take us down" and are "not our friends".
I am not sure I understand this point, but I will agree that government control is bad, and I don't want any government monitoring or controlling me. Google is bad enough, but at least they cannot put me in jail when they decide they don't like me.
That's fair. Head in sand is never good.
It's naive to think that all of the AI from Google, Palantir, Amazon, xAI, etc is not being used to monitor and control (and yes, put people in jail).
We are drifting way off topic but I am curious how AI use can get me put in jail. It certainly can lie and deceive, and convince people to do bad things, but AI use alone doesn't result in jail. Human behavior does, of course.
You might ask the people (citizens and non-citizens) who have been put in jail by ICE (not the engine) who were tracked and monitored by AI.
Rivian has already said there is no upgrade path per InsideEVs. Even if I were to get a Gen 3 + Lidar version of the R2, I wouldn't consider it future proof.
