A new car, on average, now costs over $50,000 in the United States. Why?
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Hi, this is Bill Sikkens, host of User
Friendly
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:2.0 Saturdays here on The Answer
with this week's Tech Wednesday.
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:The car automobile market
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:worldwide is changing a lotand
in some ways not for the better.
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:There are some major car brands out there
that might actually go bankrupt in coming
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:years, and others that are restructuring
and a big part of the cause for
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:this is the fact that the average
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:transaction price for a vehicle now
a new vehicle is over $50,000.
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:And a lot of this is due
to the fact of what's in the car.
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:So the question is, is technology to blame
at least partially for this,
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:for making it more costly to produce
because there's more to it?
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:We're going to be talking about that
this week on user friendly 2.0,
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:as well as some of what these new systems
do, why some of them might be important,
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:and why some of them might not even
be things you want to have there,
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:but you're going to have to pay for
anyway.
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:We're also going to be talking
a little bit more about subscriptions.
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:Do you want to have to pay a monthly fee
for your heated seats to work?
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:Join us this Saturday
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:here on User Friendly 2.0
here on the Answer or userfriendly.show

