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Technology Makes New Cars Too Expensive to Fix
securitas writes "The CSM's Eric Evarts reports on how technology makes new cars too expensive to repair, which may lead to disposable cars. The increased use of expensive electronics, air bags and advanced, lightweight body materials are causing costs to rise. Add to it the cost of specialized training and equipment (for an aluminum-body repair shop: $200,000) or even the cost of new parts alone (xenon high-intensity-discharge headlights: $3,000 each), not to mention the knowledge base required (over 1 million pages, available only electronically vs. 100 pages 20 years ago) and a labor shortage. From the article: 'Specialist technicians need advanced reading, problem-solving, and basic electronics skills.... The best people to find are those who have worked in the IT [information technology] industry.'"
The best people to find are those who have worked in the IT [information technology] industry.
Could it be that we're all going to ship our cars to India for maintenance and repair soon?
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>The best people to find are those who have worked in the IT [information technology] industry This could end up being the one IT job that can't be outsourced to India...
Those headlights are annoying. It looks like you have your highbeams on all the time with those new type of headlights.
How about READING a BOOK?
Crap, you had to go say that out loud, didn't you? Who wants to bet the next car line will have an e-book and/or audio book reader built into the dashboard?
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