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The safety issue is just FUD. ABS, if not your brake system, on current cars is a critical safety system and repair centers across the US (and likely similar i

The safety issue is just FUD. ABS, if not your brake system, on current cars is a critical safety system and repair centers across the US (and likely similar in other countries) can make these repairs safely and within manufacturer requirements. We accept this because no repair facility is going to want to lose business by installing bad parts or doing a job improperly and the last point of contact; the repair shop; is on the hook legally. With regards to parts on the phone. Apple simply needs to be forced to make replacement parts available to non Apple repair facilities. They could have an authorization process or whatnot but it needs not to be burdensome. My only concern with this would be, wouldn't that be a great way for the intelligence services of the world to finally backdoor the Apple's iDevice security.

mikeash 10y ago
Not only shops, but it's legal to service your own brakes. Let me repeat that: any random person can go to the auto parts store, spend a few bucks on new brake pads, and install them at home, legally. A badly done brake job is quite likely to result in injury, if not death, of not only the occupants of the vehicle, but other people as well who just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And yet doing it yourself is legal and socially acceptable, and attempts to change that would (rightfully) be met with strident opposition. The worst that would likely happen with a miscalibrated LIDAR is that the car wouldn't be able to drive until it was calibrated. So yeah, the safety argument isn't just FUD, it's transparently ridiculous FUD.