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Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by mrktf on Thursday November 09, 2023 @05:15AM (#38203172)
I would go even further, if car model is sold more than 100k times and more than 5 years (a.k.a reaches "significant" portion of population) car manufacturer (or any other equipment manufacturer) must do following:

1. Wiring diagrams, service documentation, working diagnostic software, firmware blobs must be provided to national archive institution (think archive.org) - and how information is shared is in discretion of this institution

2. In case there are theft prevention or "genuine check" systems (requires keys, codes or whatever) - keys and procedures are given to police (it they job anyway to prevent stealing)

3 Car road worthiness is tested using open (or opened) hardware/computer blocks - car must pass all safety rules and excepted functionality cannot deviate more than 20%. The manufacturer must provide documentation, SDK and calibration procedures, safety tests, but it is illegal to lock functionality by requiring special hardware (if it is secret sauce - provide schematic for alternative hardware which good at least 80% as special). Obvious, it can have proprietary software - it need provide open source alternative implementation.

4. if car is sold, user need to be informed about open hardware and software.

Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by RecycledEle on Thursday November 09, 2023 @07:22AM (#38204079)
I support forcing all documentation to be released, but be careful of overly invasive laws that help big companies execute regulatory capture because the new guy can not meet the regulatory requirements.
Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by dawidloubser on Thursday November 09, 2023 @10:03AM (#38205881)
You make a very good point in general, but at this point cars are already so absurdly over-regulated, it's basically impossible for the "new guy" to break into the market at all.
Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by userinanother on Friday November 10, 2023 @09:25AM (#38219225)
Everyone has wire diagrams they just need to release them
Re:Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine by account42 on Friday November 10, 2023 @08:22AM (#38218465)
> I would go even further, if car model is sold more than 100k times and more than 5 years

This will just result in a "new" model every year similarly to how (not car) retailers who supposedly offer price matching will often ask manufactures to supply whem with "unique" models of various devices.