{"id":3943,"date":"2020-12-04T12:49:13","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T12:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3943"},"modified":"2020-12-04T12:49:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T12:49:13","slug":"massachusetts-voters-affirm-the-right-to-repair-your-own-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=3943","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Voters Affirm the Right To Repair Your Own Car"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;voters had approved\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Massachusetts_Question_1,_%22Right_to_Repair_Law%22_Vehicle_Data_Access_Requirement_Initiative_(2020)\" target=\"_blank\">Massachusetts Question 1<\/a>. The initiative&#8217;s passage means that car manufacturers will be required to provide vehicle diagnostic data to consumers and independent mechanic shops. Voters in the state approved a similar right-to-repair ballot measure in 2012, but this year&#8217;s election closes a loophole that auto manufacturers had been using to skirt the requirements established by that earlier vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/11\/04\/massachusetts-voters-affirm-the-right-to-repair-your-own-car\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/11\/04\/massachusetts-voters-affirm-the-right-to-repair-your-own-car\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;voters had approved Massachusetts Question 1. The initiative&#8217;s passage means that car manufacturers will be required to provide vehicle diagnostic data to consumers and independent mechanic shops. Voters in the state approved a similar right-to-repair ballot measure in 2012, but this year&#8217;s election closes a loophole that auto manufacturers had been using to skirt the requirements established by that earlier vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1092,1091],"class_list":["post-3943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-cars","tag-massachusetts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3943"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3944,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3943\/revisions\/3944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}