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For those of us that cannot stand listening to Louis babble on, is there a concise summary written somewhere?
by 95014_refugee 4y ago
For those of us that cannot stand listening to Louis babble on, is there a concise summary written somewhere?
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- fexecve 4y agoThe bill originally was going to make available to customers and independent service centers the same parts and manuals that manufacturer repair centers have. The governor edited the bill slightly in a way that makes it almost useless now. It was edited to say that manufacturers don't have to provide parts if they think that there's a safety issue. They can just make a "full assembly" available rather than individual parts. This means that if you have a $800 device, and a $10 part can fix it, but the manufacturer decides that it's a "safety issue" to sell anything less than a $700 "motherboard assembly" then this negates the entire purpose of right to repair. He says "this bill allows for malicious compliance in a way that makes it functionally useless".
- a9h74j 4y agoSeems conceivable that this could come back to bite a manufacturer. For example, more cause for "safety recalls", or need to admit in testimony that a major assembly "had a known safety issue". Or might dealers be on the hook for higher certifications of repair technicians?
- nobody9999 4y agoI'd also note (assuming the local news I saw had it right), that the changes also only require manufacturers to provide such "assemblies" if and only if they are manufactured in New York state after June 1, 2023. The news may have it wrong, but that's an oddly specific claim to wrongly make, IMHO.
- droidist2 4y agoHe doesn't babble that much in this one, it's just a brief interview.
- userbinator 4y agoI watched the video at 2x speed. For me, he is perfectly understandable at that speed.
- djmips 4y agoIt's pretty short. But you can also read the transcript here. https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=7xGBB-717AI https://youtubetranscript.com/?v=7xGBB-717AI