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Why Your New Car Is Nearly Impossible to Fix (And It’s Getting Worse) (www.carsandhorsepower.com)
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The modern automobile is safer, cleaner, more efficient, and more technologically advanced than anything that came before it. Yet those improvements have come at a cost. For many owners, mechanics, and independent repair shops, that cost is repairability.

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[–] 28 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I did literally that.

The real solution is regulatory, though, because obviously my boycott has done absolutely fuck-all to change manufacturer behavior.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago*

    yeah they know most people don't know or don't care, maybe selling the data from the telemetry to a data broker who on sells it to ICE might change some peoples minds...

    Or if ICE starts connecting to the telemetry modules directly on older less secure models...

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