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.
Time to boycott the bail-out darlings.
That’s the case this will be the last GM truck or vehicle that I buy brand new or anything that has a computer in it
Time to go old school
Then they owe me repairs and updates going back to 2000, as well as damages for killing the Pontiac division.
Then I want buy anymore GM vehicles thank U GM for that news
Bought my last GM in 95. Monte Carlo with a 3.1l. Replaced engine at 75k , replaced trans at 100k. Had bent and broken valve stems on new crate motor with 35k on it.
My title declares differently
Dale Rix Victoria Spata-Rix
And people wonder why we don’t all biy American cars.
Can you say, “take your vehicles, and ownership, and stick it!.I will go buy a Ford, or Dodge.