Sure, there probably is a market for self driving cars that are only self driving in places with a rather high end road infrastructure but crash into bollards and road rails the moment somebody forgets to properly mark a stretch of road. What irks me is that these tech companies boldly claim that fully autonomous unsupervised driving is just around the corner and deliberately make it sound as if they've literally solved fully autonomous unsupervised driving everywhere and under all conditions. Yet, whenever I take a closer look, it usually turns out fully autonomous unsupervised driving that it is only around the corner in places with a high end road infrastructure which essentially makes it uninteresting enough to me that I'm not about to pay $8000 for it.

They do that In my neck of the woods too and my neck of the woods is still a dream compared to many other places where there are essentially no rules except one: "It's generally not a good idea run red lights but you can if you are in a hurry".

I've driven in Italy, I've also driven in Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Hanoi, Delhi, Manila and several major cities in China, Italy is a dream compared to all of them. So Uber has managed to make a car that is supposedly better than 99% of drivers in Austin Texas, good for them, they have a car that can navigate a high end urban infrastructure with well marked streets where everybody for the most part obeys the traffic ordinance and there is no congestion. Meanwhile, I have also driven in all kinds of other places where the roads are not the same quality as Austin Texas, where dirt roads, unmarked paved roads where there is snow, heavy rain, fog etc... and I know that Uber has a looooong way to go before these things are better than 99% of all humans in all those other places outside of Austin Texas.

... better than American drivers.

I don't think this will do very much to save American businesses, largely because of the nature of many of those businesses as high markup resellers of cheap Chinese goods. In my country there is no de-minmis rule on packages and never has been. You pay tolls and sales tax on everything no matter how small and cheap the shipment and yet Ali Express, Temu, Shein and others such Chinese shops are still cheaper than the local shops for reasons that should be obvious to everyone. However, for those to whom it is not obvious, lets cite an example. I just bought a dust-buster from Temu (along with a bunch of other stuff). Shipped over here after all tolls and taxes were paid that dust-buster cost me $31. The same item is for sale at a local shop for $69. All that shop does is buy the things from Ali Express where they get a bulk discount meaning that their price is maybe $27 per dust-buster with local taxes and tolls over here included (because bulk). Then they mark it up by by 60%, sell it to gullible people over here and pocket the difference. This is what everybody does from Walmart and Target to all kinds of luxury brands, they buy whatever it is for a pittance in China and then mark it up by 50%, 75%, 100%, 200%, 300% or more. Some of the time I can't be bothered to order this stuff from China but much of the time I do and the saving are substantial even with no de-minimis. As for 'Luxury brands' most of the time you are literally paying $500 for the logo on a $25 handbag (for example) and having seen a bunch of those handbags they are literally faux leather glued plastic melted/welded or occasionally badly sewn together. For that price I'd expect, at minimum, a genuine hand sewn leather handbag in which case I'd be better off going to a craft shop on Etsy to buy a truly hand made item (a carefully selected shop, because Etsy is also full of high markup resellers of cheap Chinese goods too these days). This is not to say that everything on Ali Express, Temu, Shein is cheap crap. Some of it is, a lot of it is actually quite good quality, like my dust-buster for example.

Not to worry, President Trump will put an end to these socialist DEI shenanigans which are extremely unfair to America's corporations. It's obviously far more profitable to bring in a defense contractor than it is to fix things yourself.

Nobody's forbidding you to just pull the SIM card out of your car, or take a wire cutter to the power supply of the mobile transmitter the car uses to phone home if you are really paranoid.

The EU all by itself has caused a lot of regulatory change world wide by simply by standardizing its internal market in some way which led various companies and countries around the world to just follow their lead despite not being forced to do so simply because adopting EU standards is easier and more cost effective since EU standards are usually higher than most other places they do business. But its not just Europe that is going to force the change to EVs, it's China and California as well. Together those three massive economies encouraging a quick end to ICE vehicles are an almost unstoppable force for change. Now enter stage right a legion of die-hard ICE enthusiasts protesting the unfairness and downright tyranny that is technological progress.

Sure, because the thing the US needs most in a competition with a hyper competitive Chinese tech industry is to keep America's fossilized monopolies in tact and to make it even easier for them to crush any emerging competitors and potential disruptors of the treasured status quo through a direct transactional connection to the White House. If there is one thing that will harm the US in the 'Global Race With China' it is these dinosaurs not being broken up to facilitate some semblance of the kind of competition that exists in the Chinese tech industry in the US.

The Russian Government is already jamming and spoofing GPS signals wholesale from the Black Sea to the Baltic and a bunch of their friends in the Middle East and South East Asia are doing the same in their own regions, in many cases for no apparent reason other than schadenfreude. Israel is also a major source of GPS spoofing.

You mean the ones that are truly worth profitable? This is true, but I'd be willing to bet that those other chips that are not so modern are still all over the place in mundane items we never think about but that are central to our lives and that the manufacture of these not so modern and whizzbang-cool chips has been moved some place with lower overheads, like, say, China. Moving production of them back to the USA will nevertheless be necessary in order to realize the dream of 'America First', or perhaps 'America Only' as it seems to have been rebranded. But moving production of those mundane less modern chips back to the USA will be expensive and every bit as hard as moving tube-sock and underwear manufacturing back to the US given the costs of labor, the relatively low margin of these industries/products and the complete lack of infrastructure and relevant production know-how in the US and perhaps the fact that no native born US American wants to work a job like that. This brings us neatly to the subject of MAGA anti-intellectualism and how US higher education is being systematically disassembled by Trump and his MAGA hats and why that is very, very bad for bringing manufacturing back to the US. If I had to bet on something that might actually bring manufacturing back to the developed countries it's young engineers and coders at tech startups developing industrial grade and mostly fully automated 3D printing tech, not semi senile dotards with steampunk fantasies of muscular workers in 1940s type factored surrounded by steam plumes while swinging a hammer onto a glowing piece of steel to beat out a part for a Ford pickup truck by hand.

It doesn't matter whether this was done by (in your estimation) a wrong-thinking Democrat or a right-thinking Republican, markets forces don't care about your ideology. The basic problem here is that the way the international chip trade works is that while the US does a whole lot of chip design, some 68% of chips are made in Taiwan, the the country that Trump just slapped with a 32% (or not, or maybe he did, or maybe he will in 90 days, ten dimensional chess ... blah blah blah), that he has indicated an unwillingness to defend and a corresponding proportion of the manufacturing know-how also resides in Taiwan. No matter how many chip fabs the Taiwanese build in the US, that manufacturing know-how will go away if Taiwan is invaded by China in which case Nvidia and the whole US tech industry will be up a creek without a paddle. Furthermore, neither the US nor Taiwan nor China can manufacture any chips at all without lithography machines from ASML in the EU. Trump can dream about complete American self sufficiency in everything from tropical fruit and coffee to chips and super computers but that it going to be either impossible or in some cases it will take decades to realize and even then be cost prohibitive. The other option of forcing the Taiwanese and Europeans to simply move all of their core chip and lithography know-how and manufacturing to the USA so that the whole planet will afterwards buy American, is a fever dream, it's not going to happen. Markets are a complex thing and when simpletons start trying to fix such complex systems with a crowbar and a sledgehammer it never ends well.

This will either result in extremely expensive AI supercomputers that can't compete on price with the exact same computers made outside the US or it will remain Nvidia's sincere intention to do this right up until Trump's term ends. Of course if Trump runs as VP to Don Jr. or some other puppet candidate and gets a third term I fully expect a thousand voices at Nvidia HQ to let fly a loud window shattering FUCK and then fall silent in despair at all the money they'll have to waste to make Don Sr. happy.

Beacuse, ... ready for it? ... Apple is more EVIL than other cellphone manufacturers!!!

In any normal business you'd expect management to assess whether a job can be done by AI, and that includes practical pilot testing, before deciding whether or not to introduce AI instead of offloading this on staff. If I was working for Shopify I'd go looking for a new employer with less stupid and lazy management.