Nobody seems to be mentioning that all the uncertainty in the market simply incentivizes conservative choices at every level. Consumers are nervous about the economy, and it pushes them toward more conservative ICE vehicles. Dealers are nervous about the new business models being ushered in with EVs, not to mention…

Dealerships will be the death of good cars.

It’s telling that the Bolts, two pretty bare-bones EVs in the grand scheme of things, are not on this list. Maybe, just maybe... consumers are price sensitive and in addition to not being able to afford a house nor college anymore, they’re sick of trying to pay for expensive cars.

It’s a Subaru. It WILL need diagnostics in that time, and the dealer will mess up the service. 

Suburu just basically said it doesn’t care about MA sales.

I live in MA and yes that was an actual ad! Other ads where track you home and rape you! Track you to work and ...rape you! Track you to the vet office and ........you guessed it, rape your dog! Right to repair should be a federal law.

Do the right thing, and make the diagnostics data freely available via the OBD or a USB port. Subaru’s answer is a bit shit, because now Subaru dealers will be without a tool to diagnose, so warranty repairs will take longer.  

What happens when I drive my New Hampshire-registered Subaru to Massachusetts and try to have it fixed by a third-party mechanic?

Any Subaru vehicle sold in the state, starting with model year 2022, will have its StarLink telematics system disabled

Limiting the data that is collected also reduces risks associated with data release. Creating data safeguards that allow protection AND allow the end user to access their data and share it with repair shops also helps.

I kind of hope that it results in there just being less in the way of telematics in cars. They don’t use the data for your benefit anyway. They just use it to sell to data miners for making targeted ads.

As opposed to the privacy implications of that same data being reported to manufacturer and dealer without anyone else having the access to view said data?

The Massachusetts Attorney General is looking to use Subaru’s move as evidence

If their system can be abused that easily, it’s a shit system, and can just as easily be abused by a dealer tech.

I predict we’re gonna see a repeat like CA emissions standards. There’s going to be special exceptions for states adopting this legislation until the tipping point. Hopefully that tipping point comes ASAP, we should own our products and be able to fix them.

It’s ok, the first thing I’m planning to do when I buy my next vehicle is disable that system anyway. 

Right to repair is also a big agricultural and manufacturing issue. I have been keeping old machines alive rather than buy new capital equipment that locks me into a manufacturer ecosystem; for starters, the parts supply chain is much worse than people might think, and second, equipment makers drastically…

Oh. No. You mean I might not want to buy a Subaru??? I mean, I guess someone does. Maybe that one, the Wild one that’s not Really, eXcessivly slow, but otherwise, I was already out of the Subaru game.

Reading the headline: Huh, I wonder how that makes it easier for others to access the data.