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Why Your New Car Is Nearly Impossible to Fix (And It’s Getting Worse) (www.carsandhorsepower.com)
submitted 5 hours ago by Changelin@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The modern automobile is safer, cleaner, more efficient, and more technologically advanced than anything that came before it. Yet those improvements have come at a cost. For many owners, mechanics, and independent repair shops, that cost is repairability.

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[–] vrek@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I've known enough mechanics to know... Maybe.. BIG MAYBE... I may trust them with a screwdriver but nothing more complicated

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 points 19 minutes ago (1 children)

If we're ever going to have cars that run user-repairable software, we're going to need mechanics (or at least independent mechanic shops) that know enough about software to get around. I'm not saying it's the only thing or even that it's the top priority right now, but it's gonna take a while to get there from where we are, and I think the sooner we start thinking about it the better off we'll be.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 minutes ago

I'm honestly surprised at how far some tech-illiterate people get in office jobs.