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.
That’s what you get when the government is involved! That’s why I will never own another general (government )motors
Hell if they still own them all the people that have died in a GM vehicles family needs to sue them and see how they change their thinking
WOW, If I owned a GM product, I would sell it and buy from someone else. Let them go down the tube with their own license agreement.
Like hell!
I agree, that’s probably smartest. Soon they will take over the electric computerized cars and God only knows where they will take us!
Chevy is a GM company.
Repairs are really where the money is for them.
That attitude came along when they stopped making cars, and started making computers with wheels.
No way
Pretty obvious almost no one read the article