This is some major BS



I hope no one here agrees with this.

 

The day I get a letter from a car company to stop working on my car is the day I park it in the lot of their corporate office and set it on fire.

 

I wouldn't have to do it if my car came with a bigger turbo and was e85 compliant in the first place.



Just cliffs of that article is mainly that they don't want average joes to be able to go into the PCM and change settings(tuning). That they could do something wrong and make the brakes stop working etc... At least that's what I got out of lightly skimming the article.

 

I'm betting you wouldn't want people fooling around with your life safety systems either, if it meant the hazard of ten-million dollar lawsuits when you couldn't prove they crashed because they broke their stuff.



You can bet SEMA would be setting some legislators' hair on fire if they came out with outright prohibitions.



The workaround is to drive ancient cars that have one computer, for the engine, and that's it. Also get off my lawn.

 

I have a good friend that's a copyright attorney and represents a number of large clients in the LA area.

Bring it.







I also have a problem believing that this is the opinion of the automotive manufacturers as a whole. The lobbyist group in question represents most automakers sold in the US, but (1. not all (2. the actions of the group do not always a popular decision represent. I just had a feeling this is a larger push by domestically owned entities, and some of the more lawsuit ridden (read "Toyota.") I can imagine in the coming days certain manufacturers will come out publicly against this move.