There’s Another Huge Right to Repair Fight Brewing in Massachusetts
13th October 2020
Essentially, Massachusetts voters are deciding on whether or not to add “mechanical” vehicle telematics data—realtime updates from a car’s sundry sensors transmitted to an automaker’s private servers—to the list of things OEMs have to share with independent mechanics. Telematics data was purposefully excluded from the original 2013 law, but as cars have gotten more computerized over the last decade, that gap in coverage has grown more pronounced.
The ‘right to repair’ fight is typically framed in terms of farm equipment but it really extends across the hi-tech universe.