in order to deny the FTC funding for fiscal year 2025 to enforce the Vehicle Shopping Rule. Why It Matters: The Vehicle Shopping Rule is terrible for consumers and contains draconian penalties for dealers. Complying with it will add massive amounts of time, complexity, paperwork and cost to car buying and car shopping for tens of millions of Americans every year. SO-CALLED “RIGHT TO REPAIR” LEGISLATION The Big Picture: NADA is working diligently to prevent so-called “right to repair” legislation from advancing in Congress and will vigorously defend dealers should such legislation gain momentum. What’s New and What’s Next: In November 2023, a so-called “right to repair” bill was reported out of the House Subcommittee on Innovation, Data and Commerce despite numerous bipartisan concerns about the legislation. NADA, alongside ATAEs and directors, has been engaged in educating members of Congress about the true nature of this legislation, which would require OEMs to provide any third party remote, bidirectional access to all vehicle-generated data “without restrictions or limitations” — including data unrelated to the servicing of the vehicle. Why It Matters: The information independent repair shops need to repair vehicles — including service information, tool information and training data — is readily available to independent repair shops. But so-called right-to-repair legislation has little to do with repairing vehicles; instead, it compels OEMs to provide any aftermarket parts manufacturer with the information necessary to produce or offer their own compatible aftermarket parts — including safetycritical parts. Passage of this bill would create significant privacy, cybersecurity, automotive safety and IP concerns. HYUNDAI/AMAZON The Big Picture: NADA has been persistently engaged with the Hyundai National Dealer Council, Amazon and Hyundai since the announcement of the HyundaiAmazon pilot program for vehicle marketing and shopping. What’s New and What’s Next: NADA’s immediate engagement prompted Hyundai to quickly clarify to its dealers that while the pilot program would allow marketing and listing of Hyundai vehicles on the Amazon platform, vehicle sales would continue to take place at Hyundai dealerships. 9 THE GENERATOR
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