> If you could change it, you might get it to say, break EPA regs for carbon emissions or otherwise behave in an unsafe manner. People have been doing this for

> If you could change it, you might get it to say, break EPA regs for carbon emissions or otherwise behave in an unsafe manner. People have been doing this for a hundred years. You could always change a machine to make it unsafe. This has only become illegal now that software is involved. The idea that people are no longer able to fix their own equipment, or that it has to be done "in a controlled manner", is a new idea. As a society, we've been heading down this slippery slope for a long time and it's now to the point that your opinion isn't outside of the norm even on a site called Hacker News. It's overall a lack of trust for one's fellow man. Here you are arguing about farmers breaking EPA regs or making their own equipment unsafe. When farmers are arguing to be able to make their equipment work when it needs to work using their own skills.