Chris Berube

But in the United States, there's been some movement as well.

So a few states have now passed right to repair laws.

Colorado passed a law in 2023 saying that farmers need to have the right to repair.

Oregon passed a law covering electronic and powered wheelchairs.

We talked a little bit about wheelchair users.

You know, they need access to repair tools because they're facing a pretty small market, pretty high rates for getting stuff fixed.

And now quite a few states have passed laws about fixing phones and laptops.

And that includes states who are otherwise pretty friendly to business interests.

So the latest development in all of this is a national right to repair bill for cars that is under consideration in the House of Representatives.

That bill is bipartisan, by the way.

It has been sponsored by Republicans and Democrats.

It is good news.

And actually, in response to this push, we have already seen some companies who have started sending out these repair tools.

So these are companies trying to get out preemptively ahead of these laws.

I bet.

And an example of this, a couple of years ago, a little company called John Deere, a

Perhaps you have heard of them from multiple references in this story.

A little company called John Deere have put out this software to their customers that's designed to make it possible for farmers to decode these error messages and troubleshoot lots of problems with their tractors.

So to fix things themselves.

And as of this year, John Deere told me farmers can actually override a D rating in some cases.