<story><title>Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine</title><url>https://www.404media.co/voters-overwhelmingly-pass-car-right-to-repair-law-in-maine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>&amp;gt;  Any external network connection must be disclosed to the user. The car must come with instructions how to disable it&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; All functions of the car must remain permanently operable&lt;p&gt;I think this needs to be refined a bit. As phrased, you&amp;#x27;re just making any features that use network connections illegal.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>The next law I want passed:&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;Cars can&amp;#x27;t require a network connection&amp;quot; law: Any external network connection must be disclosed to the user. The car must come with instructions how to disable it, (which must be a user serviceable physical hardware switch, fuse, jumper, etc). All functions of the car must remain permanently operable with no nagging of the user to reconnect, other than an optional initial prompt to inform the user of the change. 0 repercussions may be brought on the user for disabling the network connection, such as &amp;#x27;we can&amp;#x27;t diagnose&amp;#x2F;fix your steering because it can&amp;#x27;t connect to the network&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;we can&amp;#x27;t update your infotainment system with your network connection disabled&amp;#x27;, as those updates could easily be done via the OBDII port.&lt;p&gt;Hell while we&amp;#x27;re at it, pass this same thing for robot vacuums, garage door openers, and 1000 other &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; devices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zerbinxx</author><text>You could rephrase it as:&lt;p&gt;All functions that a consumer could reasonably expect a car to perform without an internet connection must be operable without an internet connection. All features related to driving the vehicle, including but not limited to steering, braking, using traffic signals, starting&amp;#x2F;stopping, toggling locks or lights, opening or closing doors or compartments, and other standard features of a non-connected car must not require a network connection.&lt;p&gt;I think it’s probably OK if automakers want to onboard and support network features like maps or outsourced computation&amp;#x2F;diagnostics, but bricking everything because the company wants to collect user data and they want to opt out is obviously unethical. It’s important for these regulations to include the fact that they cannot be worked around or stapled on by the auto company post-hoc via firmware upgrades or the like.</text></comment>
<story><title>Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine</title><url>https://www.404media.co/voters-overwhelmingly-pass-car-right-to-repair-law-in-maine/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kube-system</author><text>&amp;gt;  Any external network connection must be disclosed to the user. The car must come with instructions how to disable it&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; All functions of the car must remain permanently operable&lt;p&gt;I think this needs to be refined a bit. As phrased, you&amp;#x27;re just making any features that use network connections illegal.</text></item><item><author>exabrial</author><text>The next law I want passed:&lt;p&gt;The &amp;quot;Cars can&amp;#x27;t require a network connection&amp;quot; law: Any external network connection must be disclosed to the user. The car must come with instructions how to disable it, (which must be a user serviceable physical hardware switch, fuse, jumper, etc). All functions of the car must remain permanently operable with no nagging of the user to reconnect, other than an optional initial prompt to inform the user of the change. 0 repercussions may be brought on the user for disabling the network connection, such as &amp;#x27;we can&amp;#x27;t diagnose&amp;#x2F;fix your steering because it can&amp;#x27;t connect to the network&amp;#x27; or &amp;#x27;we can&amp;#x27;t update your infotainment system with your network connection disabled&amp;#x27;, as those updates could easily be done via the OBDII port.&lt;p&gt;Hell while we&amp;#x27;re at it, pass this same thing for robot vacuums, garage door openers, and 1000 other &amp;quot;smart&amp;quot; devices.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>matheusmoreira</author><text>&amp;gt; As phrased, you&amp;#x27;re just making any features that use network connections illegal.&lt;p&gt;Just as planned.</text></comment>