Finally. There really hasn’t been enough developer interest around unlocking car PCMs and open-sourcing engine management software. A bill like this would take

Finally. There really hasn’t been enough developer interest around unlocking car PCMs and open-sourcing engine management software. A bill like this would take car tuning from a niche closet industry to a ubiquitous hacking community. Most cars come tuned from the factory for use with 87 octane gas. Pumping premium (91+ octane) gas doesn’t typically confer any performance advantage due to the factory-locked PCM software. By unlocking and tweaking this software you can tune the hardware to benefit from higher-grade fuels, enabling better performance _and_ fuel efficiency/emissions. Disabling the speed limiter would become table stakes. Passing this bill would backfire majorly and open a Pandoras Box of hacking advancement. What is niche now would become common practice for everyone who drives.