The Fight for the “Right to Repair”
I think this whole open source and right to repair&#x2F;modify will be very interesting with self-driving cars, because of their interaction with the commons. Here are some issues.<p>There have been some discussions about the ethics of self-driving cars if it should sacrifice the lives of the people in the cars to save more lives. In a right to repair&#x2F;modify wouldn&#x27;t a lot of people pay to have the algorithm changed for their car to always favor the people in the car no matter what?<p>If the self-driving software is completely open source, you can exploit the collision avoidance algorithms to favor aggressive driving with your car. For example if the software tries to keep a 15 foot buffer between cars, you can&quot;tune&quot; your software to use a shorter buffer and cut in front of traffic more easily.<p>Law enforcement will campaign for a remote &quot;pull over&quot; command to prevent people from fleeing police.<p>The answers to these types of questions will be very important for open source going forward.