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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by littlestymaar on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:07AM (#38203098)
> Speak for yourself. I like being able to lock my car from far away when I've forgotten to. I like being able to remotely start the engine so it's nice and warm inside for meet in the winter.

> Making these sorts of features illegal is unacceptable and short sighted.

Please tell me that this is a parody.

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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by kube-system on Thursday November 09, 2023 @11:20AM (#38207020)
If you think that is parody, you might be in an ideological bubble. These features are popular.
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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by littlestymaar on Thursday November 09, 2023 @12:52PM (#38208301)
> If you think that is parody, you might be in an ideological bubble.

Ah yes, the famous ideological bubble of “not being a wealthy American”. Talk about filter bubbles…

The topic at stake are freedom and private property: the right to do what you want with your car, and the right to fully own a car without the manufacturer having higher rights than you the owner (including rights to disable features remotely).

If you think that “I'm too lazy to get back to my car to lock it” is a good argument in that context, there's not much I can do for you.

And “popularity” isn't relevant either, since remotely brick-able and non-reparable shit are selling well too.

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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by kube-system on Thursday November 09, 2023 @01:17PM (#38208629)
Telemetry services are hardly an American thing, and they're only a "wealthy" thing as much as buying a new economy car makes someone "wealthy".

https://www.chevrolet.com.br/carros/novo-onix/especificacoes...

Popularity is very relevant when the entire root of this thread is a discussion about law. If you propose laws that ban popular features, you're not going to be a very successful politician.

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