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.
What should we expect from Government Motors
You never own anything if your paying property taxes on it. Paid for or not!
Well fix your buick in my yard
I call BS on this claim! I hold the title! That makes them mine!
And they wander why Americans by foreign cars! How stupid!
That’s why I buy Japanese cars…………..!
If I’m leasing this then I want paid to advertise with their emblems on the front and back of it!
Ah, no, my degree in electronics may be defective, but it’s advanced enough to make your electronics trash can bait.
Your car has been wired to be remotely driven and controlled and they do not want you to discover that.
Don’t buy a car with satellite link computer system.
Your car has remote access via the satellite radio link.