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Comment by kevbin | Hacker News Reader

> Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, Minnesota, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, and Washington state are all considering broad [right-to-repair] laws that would apply to most of the stuff we use everyday.

Meanwhile, in Sacramento, it is illegal to repair your own car at your own home.

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Massachusetts had to go for round 2 of their legislation because Tesla in particular was using a loophole to get around it: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93wy8v/newly-passed-right-to...

Just looked into that law. It does exist https://code-enforcement.saccounty.net/Programs/pages/autore... I remember when I lived in SF and I would repair my own car and everyone kinda looked at me weird. Maybe it was because people probably thought I was stealing a catalytic converter or something.

This is a bit misleading. The Sacramento regulation appears to be about zoning to dissuade commercial repair operations on residential grounds.

This is bad, but is not really "anti repair" any more than not being allowed to operate a bar/food service business out of your own home.

Unfortunately the law is more draconian. The FAQ of the law provided by a comment below says

1. only minor repairs are explicitly allowed 2. only using tools found in a typical household. 3. it lists specific examples of what is allowed (brakes, oil, tire changes) and says all repairs must be like that 4. Must be in an enclosed space if the repair takes more than 24 hours (so no restoring an old beauty on your private driveway).

Pretty much only trivial fixes are allowed.

https://code-enforcement.saccounty.net/Programs/pages/autore...

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