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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. Usability issues by prostoalex · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Maybe someone could come up with better usability design for the car interfaces as well, instead of those multiple-menu screens built by Germans (no offense to KDE and SuSE guys, but Germans, while touting reliability, do build awful interfaces in their cars).

    I just got this column from Jacob Nielsen in my mailbox complaining about this exact issue.

  2. Its because.... by MeBadMagic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It's because they don't want to get sued by SCO!

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