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.
The way they are designed makes them almost impossible to work on.
Good to know. I will buy something else, or if I lease, it will be from another car maker.
If this is true they can keep there product !!!!!!!
Even changing the 3/4 quart of transfer case fluid in a ten year old BMW still requires a dealer computer flash. Do you even mechanic bro?
Brock Lynch OK, not sure why a computer flash is needed. But if you say so. I was talking about brakes, rotors, etc things like that. Those are items a mechanic, or a DIY, can do.
Government motors…
Tesla and Uber will be teaming up to bring the world a whole new transit system of autonomous transportation for the masses. Driverless taxis. Already in the works, not just an idea. So$#%&!@*you General Motors.
Yes! All car manufacturers have made it impossible to fix a lot of the electronic parts in our cars as you can’t even take a radio out of a car and make it work in a identical car without the scanner tool to make it work so you have to take it to the dealer to get it fixed and they for ever have a job.
Fuk you! The bank owns it!
Bradley T. Smith I didn’t know that. I replaced a window switch on my ford explorer with no issue. Newer cars, being more computerized, would be more complicated.