Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pad Changes (hackaday.com)

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Changing the pads on your car’s brakes is a pretty straightforward and inexpensive process on most vehicles. However, many modern vehicles having electronic parking brakes giving manufacturers a new avenue to paywall simple DIY repairs.

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[–] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Those are good points. As I stated on another comment, out of safety and other stuff getting your code in the car sounds very difficult to allow, unless we would all agree that some sort of attestation would "certify" that you are not doing some whacky stuff on your car.

However, I do have a sort of counterpoint to all this (and can be considered a hot take): the dash system, architecture wise, should not be allowed to touch anything on the vehicle operation that involves either safety or driving. Meaning for example, you can (and should) be able to blow the ac with the dash, but never the park brake.