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<blockquote data-quote="Weather Man" data-source="post: 16718601" data-attributes="member: 137766"><p><a href="http://gizmodo.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBCKotd.img?w=36&h=36&q=60&m=6&f=png&u=t" alt="Gizmodo" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p><a href="http://gizmodo.com/" target="_blank">Gizmodo</a></p><h3>Carmakers Launch Desperate Attempt to Delay Massachusetts Right-to-Repair Law</h3><p>Mack DeGeurin - 5h ago</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1734272[/ATTACH]</p><p>Major car manufacturers aren’t giving up on their efforts to stymie Massachusetts’ right to repair legislation. Less than two years after residents in the state voted in favor of updated right to repair laws that would let independent auto repair shops receive telematics data from vehicles, groups representing auto manufacturers are now introducing their own new proposals that would delay the law’s implementation.</p><p>If passed, the two new proposals, first <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5q5zq/car-companies-argue-that-right-to-repair-law-is-unconstitutional?utm_source=motherboard_twitter" target="_blank">viewed</a> by Motherboard, would push back the starting date of Massachusetts’ right to repair law to 2025, three years later than the original 2022 start date. Though supporters of the proposal argue the extra years would give automakers more time to comply with the laws, the efforts were derided by critics like Massachusetts Right to Repair Coalition Director Tommy Hickey.</p><p>“Massachusetts consumers have spoken, and the law now gives them the right to control their own repair data so that they can get their car fixed where they want,” Hickey <a href="https://www.gloucestertimes.com/automakers-push-to-delay-right-to-repair-law/article_240e07b2-7259-11ec-8f9f-4b8d24d661e5.html" target="_blank">told</a> the Gloucester Daily Times. “However, instead of listening to their customers and attempting to comply with the ballot initiative, automakers and dealers filed a baseless, anti-democratic lawsuit.”</p><p></p><p>For those unaware, Massachusetts’ 2020 law was intended to make it easier for small auto shops to access diagnostic data about vehicles without the need for proprietary tools available only to manufacturers. When the law goes into effect, The Drive <a href="https://www.thedrive.com/news/37431/massachusetts-votes-to-expand-major-right-to-repair-law-force-oems-to-open-up-vehicle-data" target="_blank">notes</a>, it would require any automaker doing business in the state to allow this telematics data to be accessible through a smartphone app.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Weather Man, post: 16718601, member: 137766"] [URL='http://gizmodo.com/'][IMG alt="Gizmodo"]https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBCKotd.img?w=36&h=36&q=60&m=6&f=png&u=t[/IMG] Gizmodo[/URL] [HEADING=2]Carmakers Launch Desperate Attempt to Delay Massachusetts Right-to-Repair Law[/HEADING] Mack DeGeurin - 5h ago [ATTACH type="full"]1734272[/ATTACH] Major car manufacturers aren’t giving up on their efforts to stymie Massachusetts’ right to repair legislation. Less than two years after residents in the state voted in favor of updated right to repair laws that would let independent auto repair shops receive telematics data from vehicles, groups representing auto manufacturers are now introducing their own new proposals that would delay the law’s implementation. If passed, the two new proposals, first [URL='https://www.vice.com/en/article/g5q5zq/car-companies-argue-that-right-to-repair-law-is-unconstitutional?utm_source=motherboard_twitter']viewed[/URL] by Motherboard, would push back the starting date of Massachusetts’ right to repair law to 2025, three years later than the original 2022 start date. Though supporters of the proposal argue the extra years would give automakers more time to comply with the laws, the efforts were derided by critics like Massachusetts Right to Repair Coalition Director Tommy Hickey. “Massachusetts consumers have spoken, and the law now gives them the right to control their own repair data so that they can get their car fixed where they want,” Hickey [URL='https://www.gloucestertimes.com/automakers-push-to-delay-right-to-repair-law/article_240e07b2-7259-11ec-8f9f-4b8d24d661e5.html']told[/URL] the Gloucester Daily Times. “However, instead of listening to their customers and attempting to comply with the ballot initiative, automakers and dealers filed a baseless, anti-democratic lawsuit.” For those unaware, Massachusetts’ 2020 law was intended to make it easier for small auto shops to access diagnostic data about vehicles without the need for proprietary tools available only to manufacturers. When the law goes into effect, The Drive [URL='https://www.thedrive.com/news/37431/massachusetts-votes-to-expand-major-right-to-repair-law-force-oems-to-open-up-vehicle-data']notes[/URL], it would require any automaker doing business in the state to allow this telematics data to be accessible through a smartphone app. [/QUOTE]
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