Is the data inside your car yours- or the manufacturer’s? Right now, the industry is acting like it owns that data outright and is lobbying to keep it that way, even if it means criminal penalties for drivers and independent repairers who dare to look behind the digital curtain. Whether lawmakers and regulators accept that logic will decide not just what happens to your next repair bill, but what “ownership” really means in a world where everything you buy comes with a lock, a license agreement, and a threat attached. Read the following: Automakers push to make accessing your own car’s data a crime punishable by 3 to 5 years in federal prison
Let’s call this what it is - another way to maximize profits for the automakers. They obviously don’t want people to be able to maintain their own cars. Greedy peckerheads!
