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Mass. has been pummeled by ads about Question 1. They veer into exaggeration and ‘fear-mongering,’ experts say
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In one television ad, a woman walks alone in a deserted parking garage, the camera menacingly following as a narrator warns of predators using a car’s data to “stalk their victims, pinpoint exactly where you are" — if Question 1 passes.
Another commercial says that automakers could use technology inside your sedan to “gain a monopoly on car repairs" and undercut businesses and thousands of jobs in Massachusetts. That is, if Question 1 doesn’t pass.
Massachusetts voters are being asked this November to not only weigh whether to expand the state’s “Right to Repair” law, which gives independent mechanics access to a car’s diagnostic codes, but seemingly which dystopian future they most want to avoid.
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