ElI5 why do we have car dealerships?
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Cars used to be like iPhones. Ford, for example, would not allow just anyone to service their vehicles. They wouldn’t sell parts to 3rd parties or consumers, and other shenanigans.
So laws were put in place to make it illegal for car companies to operate that way, and some things improved for consumers but greed, as always, found a way to corrupt some of that progress.
Today, effectively the same battle is going on with tech companies and upstart car companies like Tesla, only with modern tech companies can be even more exploitative than those car companies a century ago. It’s what is going on with the “right to repair ” laws you are maybe hearing about.
As for car companies, they should be able to sell direct but should be required to sell parts, tools, instructions and other things to 3rd parties like modern day right to repair laws require.
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