A Fight Over the Right to Repair Cars Turns Ugly

Michael Trew · 2022-02-09T05:30:15+00:00

In the wake of a voter-approved law, Subaru and Kia dealers inMassachusetts have disabled systems that allow remote starts and sendmaintenance alerts.............For Siegel, the controversy points to a bigger and woolier questionabout whether consumers understand just how much data is flowing fromtheir vehicles and where it goes. There's money to be made from acar's GPS location, temperature data, biometric info, and data on keyparts. A few years ago, Siegel and his colleagues estimated that theUS connected-car data market could be worth up to $92 billion, witheveryone from manufacturers and parts suppliers to dealers andinsurers racing for a share. "The most important thing is to showpeople their own breadcrumbs," Siegel says.***This is for the folks here who thing the new cars are just like the old ones, and maybe even easier to work on... *nope* ... they are designing them to not be user-serviceable, mark my words. I'll stick with my 90's and older vehicles, thanks -- I'll just keep hoarding them.

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I'd be afraid of glazing my brakes over, rather far from home. Keep in mind, when I do this trip, it'll be in an early 90's Geo Metro... yes, a cross-country trip (I live on the border of Ohio and PA).

I've driven up the steepest street in the USA, Canton Ave. right here in Pittsburgh PA; pictures:

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They don't allow cars to drive down. Those old Ford 300 straight 6's have amazing low-end torque. I took my '83 with a 3-on-the-tree up in

2nd gear the whole way. Good luck using 2nd gear in almost any other vehicle.