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New York congressman puts forward federal right-to-repair bill

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About time this gets national level support from lawmakers.. but then I tend to be overly optimistic

Any chance this will be successful with all the lobbying going on? I see no benefit other than for the consumer and the environment.

From a review on Lois Rossman's channel it looks like it leaves out major industries, automotive and health, and has been scheduled so it can quietly be killed with no one being to blame.

Make sure to keep writing your congresspeople.

Big auto has the money to keep buying the politicians. They don't want consumers resetting dumb sensor issues for free or fixing their own vehicles, because that's how dealers make their money.

Nit - spelled: Louis Rossmann

Lois is my late grandmother's name.

(In general, it's a good idea to get people's names spelled correctly because they tend to take offense to it.)

As someone who got his first name misspelled quite often I make sure to cut and paste names.

Depends on how you interpret 'fixing your vehicle'.

It will take just one case where someone 'fixed' their automatic braking system and runs over a kid or something to get this kind of 'right' repealed.

Of course due to the risks, it's corporations that should decide who is allowed to fix vehicles, and not some kind of state certification board, such as what is used for doctors/lawyers/teachers/nurses/drivers/electricians/engineers/accountants/car mechanics*... wait.

*https://work.chron.com/state-requirements-auto-mechanic-3013...

I can already fail to fix my breaks and kill myself or someone else.

What people forget here is that dealerships frequently forget to tighten lug nuts / inner tie rods / the oil drain bolt. Dealers/shops also very frequently make problems for themselves to fix, anecdotal:

1. Oil change - "Your ECU is dead, how did you drive till now?" Asked for car back - they disconnected a bunch of sensors.

2. Oil change - did not put the oil cap back on.

3. Alignment 15 mins after buying new tires at Costco and changing the a day ago "...your tires are looking kind of worn and you DEFINITELY need an oil change."

You don't need to buy politicians when the demographics that most vocally support the right to repair have been shouting from the rooftops about how evil cars are and how their usage doesn't cost enough. Many of the people who would normally care about a big omission will pretend they didn't see that one because it suits there interests.

Why would the auto companies care about profits for their dealerships? That’s margin going to someone else when that could instead be spent on higher priced vehicles.

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