Biden Screws Over Car Owners By Blocking Right To Repair Law

It looks like President Joe Biden has been running rough shot over the voters of the state of Massachusetts. That's right. Last week, the Biden administration told auto manufacturers in that state they could ignore a ballot measure passed in 2020 by voters there to allow car owners access to their own data from their cars, so that they could go to a mechanic of their choosing and not

necessarily a mechanic corresponding to the brand of their car, right? All right, so this is a little maybe convoluted, but what does it have to do with? Well, it's actually pretty important as a lot to do with consumer rights. So back in 2012, Massachusetts passed this right to repair law that required automakers to build this onboard port that allowed all the cars data to be stored

port port. That's really convoluted, but basically it's difficult to access the information of your car. So what did Massachusetts voters do? They reupped their law and in 2020 passes ballot measure that updates the right to repair and says, yeah, you've got to use open standards for diagnostic data. So car owners and independent car shops can access it. 75% of the people voted yes, but the graphic

one, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said, nope, actually, you could just ignore it. So they said it's preempted by the Federal Safety Act because of concerns that malicious actors could utilize the laws open access standards to remotely modify vehicle systems. So in other words, it's going to open us up to cybersecurity threats. And coincidentally, that was the same reason that the automakers who lobbied hard

against that measure that did pass the same reason they gave on why they shouldn't pass that ballot measure. Last thing, you guys need to know Ford and General Motors, they've been among the largest donors to the opposition campaigns and Massachusetts. And they were donors to Biden's inaugural committee. Remember how inaugurations are somehow cash cows, General Motors donated 500,000 Ford 250,000. John. I mean, look, it's a

reminder that these are massive companies with a lot of influence. We saw that in Florida with the bill that DeSantis passed in terms of making sure the dealers can continue to sell cars. The cars can't be sold directly from the manufacturers. And that they're not just influencing Republicans, but Democrats as well. I don't know how much evidence there is to their point about possibly gaining access

through side hacking or whatever. But I do think that a lot of people are incredibly frustrated by the high price of owning a car. Maybe they can amend it, they can do another version that allows something like that. I don't know. Well, I feel like he's moving in the opposite direction of his campaign promises, especially when it comes to renewables. Reusing getting your car fixed affordably

is part of that. I think it's an incredible show of consumer force. The Massachusetts voters did this. And it's also an incredible show of heavy handed overreach by the Biden administration to tell auto manufacturers they could ignore this rule. That's effectively what the national transportation board told them that they could just ignore that ruling. Excuse me, the highway traffic safety administration said that. And I want

to just go to this because graphic six, this is a person who lives in Massachusetts says, look, the data generated by my car should belong to me. If it is impossible to provide to gear access to me, the car owner, to the data transmitted by my car, then the car is insecure. And automakers need to fix that. If access to the data puts my life at

risk, regulators should never have permitted these systems to be on the road in the first place. And I feel like we're in a moment. This is something that I feel like Republicans, Democrats, could both agree on that the automaker should not be the only ones in control of your data and think of who they could sell that to. Give that to if it's law enforcement, which

is maybe the most like that sort of wishful thinking. That's for the best case scenario. But what about insurance companies? All different ways that your data could be sold or given away. And so I just want to name that Senator Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey from Massachusetts spoke out about this. They had a letter pushing back on Biden said NHTSA's decision to give auto makers a

green light to ignore state law. Appears to be in favor of big auto. Yeah, it appears it is to undermine the will of Massachusetts voters and the Biden administration's competition policy and raises questions about both the decision process and the substance of decision by NHTSA's leadership. We're asking NHTSA to explain its rationale for harmful actions and respect Massachusetts law by reversing course. So they're openly calling

it out. And the thing that I was going to mention also is that it feels like it's moving in the opposite direction. It's doubling down on cars when Biden's whole thing is, hey, let's move to greener energy. And actually, to be honest, he's doubling down on new cars. So it's, hey, just buy a new car instead of, if people cannot affordably fix the cars that they

have because they are designed, the way that Mac products and Apple products are designed, only be serviced by one dealer, then that effectively creates even more waste. Yeah, 100%. I'm glad that you brought up the Apple thing because the same sort of thing is done by cell phone manufacturers. Thankfully, a lot of these products that are sold internationally run afoul of the fact that in Europe,

corporations don't always get exactly what they want. And so sometimes they do have to change their products because of regulations outside of the United States. But yeah, the voting machine manufacturers use this sort of thing, these trade secrets protections, rather than actually securing the devices. If we're even assuming that what they're saying is true, they instead have these broad protections from any access whatsoever. And I

just think, look, how much, how much goodwill could you get from the voters if you gave them this like at the national level? And also, at the same time, did some regulations to make sure that when they bring their car to a third party repair place, there's some sort of standard as well. And so, the first thing that I think is that the implementation of how

much they can actually charge you for different things. This is a terrible process to engage in from top to bottom, but it doesn't have to be. It just sort of is because it's a status quo because a lot of money has changed the cans. And it's also something that he'll be Biden won't get credit for from the right because he's basically arguing in favor of corporations.

He wouldn't get credit for it. And you better hope they don't find this story because if anything, they'd call them out on it and try and defend all the working man in use it against him, which they held they could and should and we should. But anyway, it's depressing. And I'm also kind of excited by the fact that these kinds of ballot measures even exist and

good on Massachusetts. They are. So those are super fun. But you also get playback of our exclusive member only shows and specials right after they air. So all that all you got to do is click that join button right underneath the video. Thank you.