[s-cars] US-MA legislative alert: Right To Repair bill

[Brett Dikeman]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Taka Mizutani <t44tqtro at gmail.com> wrote:

>  thanks for spamming the lists with political stuff because
> you feel it's relevant.

The right for owners and independent mechanics to have access to
repair/diagnostic info, and firmware for cars by owners-  is extremely
relevant to the Audifans community.

> Not only that, this is really only of interest to Massachusetts residents-
> what about the other 49 states, Canada, Mexico and the rest of the world
> that really have no interest in these things?

Well, the funny thing is that in Germany, manufacturers are already
required to provide repair and diagnostic info to indie mechanics, I
believe.

As for state-by-state relevancy:

"Check in your state to see if there's a similar bill afoot.  More
info on the coalition:
http://www.righttorepair.org/"

That sentence is a grammatical disaster, but, yes, it is of national
interest.  The coalition has bills going in MA and NJ, and in other
states, they're trying to get traction.  Public support would help
keep the bills from getting killed in committee.

-B