This is a feel good poison pill to set precident. How do you stop developers from fiddling in their own hardware to adjust settings? Allow the poor defenseless manufacturers to lock down the system and give them more legal ways to attack people researching it. Wouldnt want someone to figure out that the subscription service we installed in their car is locally controlled! Goodness an error? Only our certified dealers can....

This is being approached in a way to weaken right to repair and ownership rights.

Weirdly enough there's a pretty easy way to stop emissions limits from being bypassed - make it a physical limitation, not in software.

But like with putting tablets into every fucking car nowadays, doing anything physically would require just a bit more money, ergo it won't be done.

This is literally a few cars on the road. How about we don't stop investing into electrification and we won't have this problem in the future.

What’s the DoJ doing cracking down on emissions? Everywhere else the Administration is trying to maximise them.

Background on the Case

The DOJ first sued EZ Lynk in 2021, accusing the Cayman Islands-based company of violating the Clean Air Act by marketing and selling “defeat devices.”
These tools allegedly allow users to bypass factory emissions controls on diesel vehicles, primarily through the EZ Lynk Auto Agent app paired with an onboard diagnostic (OBD) hardware dongle.