--- title: Blacklisted Chinese lidar maker Hesai powers US self-driving description: Hesai, a Shanghai-based lidar manufacturer holding roughly a third of the global automotive lidar market, appears on the US Pentagon's blacklist of Chinese... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/blacklisted-chinese-lidar-maker-hesai-powers-us-self-driving-rt6uirmtl twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Blacklisted Chinese lidar maker Hesai powers US self-driving | daily.dev og:description: Hesai, a Shanghai-based lidar manufacturer holding roughly a third of the global automotive lidar market, appears on the US Pentagon's blacklist of Chinese... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/blacklisted-chinese-lidar-maker-hesai-powers-us-self-driving-rt6uirmtl og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Rt6uIRmTl.png og:image:alt: Blacklisted Chinese lidar maker Hesai powers US self-driving og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Blacklisted Chinese lidar maker Hesai powers US self-driving **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Hesai, a Shanghai-based lidar manufacturer holding roughly a third of the global automotive lidar market, appears on the US Pentagon's blacklist of Chinese military companies — yet its sensors power Amazon's Zoox robotaxis, trucking firms Waabi and Kodiak, delivery company Nuro, JFK airport gates, and Nvidia's self-driving platform. The Pentagon designation blocks government contracts but does not prevent commercial use. Security researchers have demonstrated that Hesai sensors can be compromised via malware to create phantom obstacles or hide real ones, and a 2024 firmware bug froze all Hesai sensors simultaneously due to a leap-year coding error. Hesai's CEO disputes security concerns, saying sensors store no data and cannot transmit information externally. US lawmakers are pushing to phase out Chinese lidar, drawing comparisons to earlier actions against Huawei, DJI, and TP-Link. Europe faces a similar dilemma as its automakers rely on cheaper Chinese sensors dominating the autonomous-driving market. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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