You can trick your whip all you want, but GM says that car is still theirs, no matter what you’ve paid. In a hearing this week, General Motors attorney Harry Lightsey said that purchasing and paying off your GM vehicle is a license agreement and not ownership.
The U.S Copyright Office is holding a hearing on whether anyone other than the vehicle’s manufacturer has the right to alter the that car’s copyrighted software. With modern design being what it is, this means almost altering anything about the vehicle.
Mechanics and private owners are saying they need to be allowed to make repairs on their vehicles to keep them running or maintain their business. But GM is saying that anyone unauthorized altering anything about the vehicle could create problems with the software and endanger the driver. This sounds more like a business ploy on the part of GM to hold a monopoly on vehicle repairs.
Read more about GM’s position on page 2.
Desperation over the advancement of self driving cars. I don’t see this ending soon.
lol id like to see you come take my cars.they are mine I owe them no one eles does ..and ill shot your$#%&!@*if you try and steal it
bull fucking$#%&!@*i’sd like for them to say that to me.they have their heads shoved up the tailpipe
Yeah that’s b******t. No matter the ruling, we’ll still be modding our cars and remapping the ECM all we want.
I wouldn’t take a GM car for free.
Just a gaurantee that I won’t be buying GM products! # yesterday’stechnologytoday
What the hell meds are these people on, people have just gone stupid all of a sudden.
They have now programmed their vehicles for the screws in the motor break when you try to repair it. I wouldn’t have a GM product if they gave it to me. Don’t they still owe us some big money that odumbo gave them from our pockets?
It’s always about CONTROL! Control of the masses and what we are allowed to do even if we own it, paid in full, they always find a way to take or bind us to the Elite system so that only they have the right to issue permission!! You Will Obey!!
I’ll stick with Ford Motors