From the OP link:
Automakers to gearheads: Stop repairing cars
"Manufacturers and their lobbyists have submitted comments on six of the 27 proposals. The specific topics cover: unlocking mobile connectivity devices, unlocking consumer machines, jailbreaking all-purpose mobile computing devices, vehicle software diagnosis repair and modification, and software security and safety research."
This begets the basic question:
Why are manufacturers integrating such vulnerable and hackable devices into the core infrastructure of their cars?
Once a car is sold it fully belongs to
the customer/owner for personal use.
Right?
When I buy some merchandise I can paint, burn, chop it up, or throw it into the trash. It's mine.
The manufacturers are designing "passenger seat roof eject" big red buttons all over the car and then expecting nobody will push one of them.