Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine
by smolder on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:33PM
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It's fine for those functions to be a casualty of the owners choice to turn off the network, just like with a phone. If automakers want to use a cellular connection in your car for non-critical functions, it should come with a legitimate user-uncontrollable off switch, just like airplane mode on a phone.
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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine
by brewdad on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @05:57PM
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Right. We're trying to stop the world of heated seat subscriptions with a remote license verification at startup before it gets a foothold.
Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine
by Arainach on Wednesday November 08, 2023 @09:05PM
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Right - but as the parent said, the proposed language of "all car features must keep working" isn't compatible with that.
Defining a law that allows those features to be turned off and yet disallows "data is broken, heated seats are disabled" is very difficult. After all, heated seats aren't an essential safety feature.