Can't wait to see a forum similar to XDA-developer where custom ROM's for every car will be made available and all the footnotes saying "use at your own risk" and the first 1000 people which, instead of bricking their shit android phones, will end up in the emergency room (if lucky)... Actually, I don't wanna be that cynical, I hope no sane people will use custom ROMs they don't fully trust the source at least on the engine ECU.
Open sourcing car SW (especially safety relevant) is a can full of worms. Side effects are being ignored by all these militants. If they wanna be inventive, go ahead and design their own SW from ground up (some projects exist), they will find a way to bypass tuning protection on their cars and they'll be able to run their own brain fart on their own cars, but leave the car makers out. Car makers just don't want them to do it and no body of law will ever be capable of forcing them. At most, car makers will open SW for inspecting commissions, but really low chance to do it for the public.
And to me, this is really a hangman situation. An opportunity some people/organizations have waited for some time and are really kicking VW with all force possible, especially from the US direction. But VW fucked up and they can't respond in any way. I wonder how big the fine will be compared to other incidents that actually killed people, or real mass pollution cases (petrol in the sea, etc.).
