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if it ever gets implemented it'll be about controlling who can work on the car and not about emissions at all. This is simply a fallback option for a justification on abusing right to repair laws if and when they get passed in various states. They'll use their version of "think of the children", which is "think of the environment" to enforce only "authorized" technicians can make repairs and install equipment and adjust parameters so long as it can be tangentially related to emissions (which is mostly everything - even the tire pressure).
Dont mistake that that is the primary purpose of such a feature if it's being considered. It serves no other purpose, it's the state's responsibility to test cars for emissions if they want to, not the manufacturers to do it for them. It's stupid for the government to trust the testing of emissions to be done by the thing they're testing anyway. But that's a different topic.
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