Massachusetts Right to Repair Battle Gears Up: November ballot initiative could make it the first R2R state in the U.S.

Massachusetts Right to Repair Battle Gears Up

Massachusetts Right to Repair Battle Gears Up: November ballot initiative could make it the first R2R state in the U.S.

There is a weekly column in the Wall Street Journal that offers solutions to readers' automobile problems, the latest one concerning a 2008 Cadillac owner whose car trunk kept opening by itself. The owner had brought it to three dealers. None could find a solution. Apparently, there is a “remote control door lock receiver” that needs recalibration to keep this from happening again. As the column noted, “That is right—opening the trunk used to be a mechanical operation but now is an electronic one on many vehicles.” If the owner happened to be in Massachusetts, some of his dealer frustration might be addressed by its proposed “Right to Repair” bill —assuming the on-going and ever increasingly nasty fight over it can be resolved. The R2R bill states that beginning in 2016 and starting with model year 2002, “a manufacturer of motor vehicles sold in the commonwealth shall make...

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