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Congress May Force Revealing of Car Computer Secrets

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the renabling-diy-maintenance dept.

marksven writes "The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is reporting that there is a bill with 86 co-sponsors in the House to force automakers to open up their proprietary interfaces to car computers. Small car repair shops are more and more becoming locked out of the repair business because most late model cars can only be fixed by accessing their computers with codes that are secret."

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  1. And in other news by maroberts · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    DVD manufacturers forced to open CSS.
    Microsoft forced toopen Windows hidden interfaces.

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  2. nice double standard by subjectstorm · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    enforced open source for cars but not for computers, eh congressman? well that's a damned double standard!

    lets stick to our guns and let the dealerships charge the independent service shops for "special training" to learn the codes, then sell them the "diagnostic tools" at grossly inflated prices.

    fair is fair after all. NO CHEATING!

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  3. How is this a troll? by StarKruzr · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The guy is telling an honest anecdotal story which is relevant to the article. Just because you don't agree with the implications of what he's saying doesn't mean he's a troll.

    Wake the fuck up, mods.

    Posting logged-in because I am pissed off enough not to care about some imbecile modding me down for pointing this out.

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