| LIFE "Right to Repair" - John Deere's repair monopoly - Tesla has a similar approach

[planomateo]

Wow, hope the auto industry doesn't go this direction. I love working on my vehicles.

I'm going to be in the market for a tractor soon, guess I'm gonna go old school...

 

[planomateo]

Insert Tesla...

 

[XXL TideFan]

The auto industry is already moving that direction. Even a push to make you agree to a license similar to Microsoft because of the proprietary software in each car. Put a performance chip in and you have violated the EULA.

 

[planomateo]

I was at a tech conference about 5 years ago (forget which one), they said the BMW 8 series had like 65 million lines of code.

Fast forward to 2016, Ford F150 150 million lines of code.

At CES 2016 we saw glimpses of what urban travel will look like in the future yet the rate of innovation, thinking and development in technology has accelerated. As much as car companies have become data companies collecting, analysing and leveraging the vast amounts of data from thousands of sensors in the cars (there are 150 million lines of code in a Ford today) the role of the car will change for consumers.