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.
They do that, they’ll hit you with repossession. Either way, to their thinking, they’ve got you. You pay both ways.
GM makes more money, financing cars then they do selling them
It is more than a business boy it is fascism at its best!
Sounds like it is time to stop buying GM products.
Changing mechanical parts (which is probably 99% of the maintenance that goes into a car) does not touch the software. I don’t think businesses have anything to worry about.
I will stick with ford.
My generation is screwed up.
It’s why I bought a Kia.
Amen
If you replace the master window switch in the driver’s door, you will have to program it before it will work.
Mechanical parts only account for appx. 60% of repairs. The rest are command/control issues within the network containing between 20 & 25 different computers.