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Speaker 1: Mr Eisenstein, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and whatever else

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Speaker 1: does you celebrate in between Yesterday? Absolutely absolutely what a

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Speaker 1: you might have to settle or wait before you can

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Speaker 1: get one. Or maybe you're going to go to the

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Speaker 1: dealer to buy that new current you're not going to

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Speaker 1: find that wiggle room on price like maybe you did

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Speaker 1: five years or Elier three years earlier, because six months ago,

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Speaker 1: in fact, you're absolutely right. Uh. Interestingly enough, the automakers

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Speaker 1: had a very good third quarter and dealers were by

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Speaker 1: and large having some of their best profits ever. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The head of Auto Nation, you know, the big public

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Speaker 1: dealer network, Mike Jackson, an old friend, told investors at

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Speaker 1: their stock meeting Stockholder is meeting a couple of months

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Speaker 1: ago that you know, if you don't have the inventory,

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Speaker 1: you just don't give the discounts and uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: you sell a higher price models if you can get them,

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Speaker 1: and that was what happened. So what do you see?

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Speaker 1: Partially because people have been intentionally upgrading lately, but you've

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Speaker 1: been seeing record high what they call transaction prices. People

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Speaker 1: are paying more for the new cars than ever right now,

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Speaker 1: and part of that's because they're opting up for higher,

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Speaker 1: higher levels and more features, but also because the discounts

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Speaker 1: are just disappearing because factory and dealers don't have to

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Speaker 1: give the big discounts when they don't have the product

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Speaker 1: to sell. Do you think that sixteen percent sales drop?

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Speaker 1: Sixteen and a few points sales drop? You know, does

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Speaker 1: that does that number include, for example, say fleet sales

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Speaker 1: because I was reading somewhere that you know, rental cars,

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Speaker 1: you know, rental car business just about disappeared. Nobody was

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Speaker 1: traveling by airplane to go anywhere, so the airplane, the airport,

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Speaker 1: rental car businesses just disappeared. And that's got to affect

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Speaker 1: car sales, right yep, yep. Uh. In fact, the rental

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Speaker 1: car business has not bounced back yet. You may recall

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Speaker 1: the headlines when it hurts, you know, the biggest biggest

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Speaker 1: rental car company declared bankruptcy earlier this year, and that

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Speaker 1: was one of the reasons they were in a mess

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Speaker 1: before COVID, and it just pushed him over the edge.

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Speaker 1: So the rental car companies are not buying vehicles the

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Speaker 1: way they they used to, and it's anybody's guests when

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Speaker 1: they're going to start ordering again. On the other hand,

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Speaker 1: the economy has been reasonably good uh and uh a

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Speaker 1: lot better than people thought it would be right now,

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Speaker 1: So you do have a lot of small businesses that

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Speaker 1: are buying pickups and delivery vans and the like. So

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Speaker 1: on the positive side, that's helping make up a little

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Speaker 1: bit of the business loss to the rental fleets. How

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Speaker 1: are the how is the electric car business affected by COVID, Paul,

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Speaker 1: you know in terms of sales? Uh? Can they meet

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Speaker 1: the demand or are they behind? Also? Do you know

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Speaker 1: they're a little bit behind. The electric car business has

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Speaker 1: been growing over recent years and it will probably pick

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Speaker 1: up a lot more in the next few years. Globally,

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Speaker 1: it's it's doing pretty darn well. Uh. Some parts of

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Speaker 1: Europe you're seeing fifty and six of the sales Norway,

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Speaker 1: for example, are electric vehicles. For all sorts of reasons here.

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Speaker 1: I think we're gonna be up about two of the

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Speaker 1: market will be pure battery electric vehicles this year, which

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Speaker 1: you know, is up from less than one percent a

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Speaker 1: couple of years ago. Um. And and the thing is,

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Speaker 1: there's a lot more product and a lot of better

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Speaker 1: product out I don't know if you happen to catch

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Speaker 1: today the announcement of the North American Car and Truck

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Speaker 1: of the Year truck and Utility Vehicle of the Year

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Speaker 1: UH semi finalists, excuse me. And among those was the

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Speaker 1: new Mustang Maki, which is up for the Utility Vehicle

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Speaker 1: of the Year, and I think it has a very

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Speaker 1: good shot at winning that title over some conventional conventional vehicles.

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Speaker 1: You know, you're going to see a ton of electrics

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Speaker 1: coming out over the next twenty four months. The Mustang Maki,

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Speaker 1: the Volkswagen I D Fur, the GMC Hummer, the Chevrolet

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Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting, right And it's it's funny

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Speaker 1: how the electric car market seems to be growing even

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Speaker 1: in the even in the face of COVID. Hey, Paul,

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Speaker 1: sit tight, let me pull over and take a pause

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Speaker 1: and we'll come back and we'll finish up with're with

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Speaker 1: Paul Eisensteinert, the Detroit Bureau dot Com. I'm run an

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Speaker 1: eating of the Car Doctor. We'll be back right after this,

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Speaker 1: and I'd be driving it myself. I'm run anning of

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Speaker 1: the Car Doctor with Paul Eisensteiner, the Detroit Bureau. Paul,

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Speaker 1: welcome back. You're there, sir, Yes, sir um. Uh. You know,

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Speaker 1: so we see sales are up and down. What's what

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Speaker 1: else you got on that year end list? Paul, Wow,

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Speaker 1: let's see. Uh, this is a big year for transitions,

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Speaker 1: if you will. For one thing, we talked about electric vehicles. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Next year is going to be a real, real transition

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Speaker 1: here with a lot of product coming to market. But

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Speaker 1: we're also seeing a lot of things happen in the

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Speaker 1: autonomous world right now, and that I think is going

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Speaker 1: to be pretty during significant because, Uh, there's several manufacturers

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Speaker 1: out there who are beginning to test fully driverless vehicles. Uh.

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Speaker 1: The General Motors Subsidiary g m R Cruise Origin is

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Speaker 1: a vehicle that they brought out you may recall earlier

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Speaker 1: this year. It looks sort of like a toaster on

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Speaker 1: wheels and there's no steering wheel up there, no controls

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Speaker 1: at all. You are going to be seeing that and

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Speaker 1: modified versions of the of the Chevallet Bolt EV that

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Speaker 1: will be tested fully driverless. We're going to see another

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Speaker 1: company called Zooks which builds another or is trying to

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Speaker 1: build another toaster on wheels. It seems to be the

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Speaker 1: popular design lately with all these futuristic companies will be driverless.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Have you ever been

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Speaker 1: any of the driverless vehicles yet? Have you had the experience?

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Speaker 1: I have never driven in a well, now I take

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Speaker 1: it back on a limited of course, I've been in

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Speaker 1: a vehicle that was fully driverless, never without a backup

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Speaker 1: driver on public roads. But in the next year, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna start seeing actual vehicles that they will have no

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Speaker 1: driver in there and in some cases no instruments, no

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Speaker 1: controls for anybody to grab were the vehicle to have

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Speaker 1: a problem. The technology is definitely advancing. Uh. You know.

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Speaker 1: We see Tesla with the supposed hands free system which

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Speaker 1: really isn't uh and they promised to go a step

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Speaker 1: further in the next year. So will we see truly

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Speaker 1: hands free cars within the next few years? Probably on

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Speaker 1: limited cases. You know, UH General Motives has its technology

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Speaker 1: out their super Cruise. Ford is about to bring up

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Speaker 1: the copilot assist system and so on. And these technologies

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Speaker 1: will at least let you take your hands off the

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Speaker 1: wheel as long as you remain vigilant and to take

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Speaker 1: control in an emergency. But the next step will be

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Speaker 1: fully hands free. And then eventually you're gonna start seeing

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Speaker 1: vehicles that won't need a driver at all, that will

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Speaker 1: be either for sale or rent, or more likely, at

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Speaker 1: least initially will be operated by various uh rides sharing

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Speaker 1: services like Weymo or uber or lift. Can you imagine

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Speaker 1: that the impact? You know, you think about it. A

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Speaker 1: driverless vehicle. Now you don't need to get a driver's license,

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Speaker 1: you don't need to go get tested, you don't need

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Speaker 1: driving instructors. You know, you take a driving test. You know,

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Speaker 1: all the fees and the associated costs that people have

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Speaker 1: to incur in their lifetime to pay for the privilege

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Speaker 1: of driving a car, that's all gone. You're gonna change

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Speaker 1: the going to change the economy. Yeah. The other thing

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Speaker 1: that's very important that gets forgotten uh many times, is

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Speaker 1: that there's a significant portion of the American public that

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Speaker 1: can't drive. They may have a disease like multiple scrosses.

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Speaker 1: They may be restricted for well legal reasons. Maybe they

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Speaker 1: they were drunk and they can make can't operate a vehicle,

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Speaker 1: there elderly, any number of things. This is there are

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Speaker 1: millions of people out there who must depend on somebody

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Speaker 1: else to give them a ride. And that's one of

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Speaker 1: the potential things that that one of the breakthroughs that

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Speaker 1: fully driverless vehicles could help resolve, and they could. I

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Speaker 1: just you know, I think about my mom. My mom

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Speaker 1: was ninety six almost when she passed, and I asked

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Speaker 1: her one day we were talking and I said, my said,

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Speaker 1: you know you're gonna miss seeing driverless cars. And she says,

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Speaker 1: that's okay. I wouldn't want to get in one anyway, Ronnie,

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Speaker 1: She says, I've seen the world of mountain Press. She goes,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be around for driverless cars. You know, Paul,

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Speaker 1: could you imagine putting your nine year old mother in

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Speaker 1: a driverless car and saying, hey, Mom, the car's gonna

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Speaker 1: take you to the doctor, Like, would she really let

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Speaker 1: you do that? I wonder? You know, it's it's but

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Speaker 1: you're you make a fair point and I understand it, um,

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Speaker 1: and I think there is a place for it. So

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Speaker 1: I've got two minutes left, Paul, give me another year ender. Well,

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Speaker 1: uh sirtain me. We're going to see uh an ongoing

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Speaker 1: battle over the rollback of the fuel economy standards that

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Speaker 1: President Trump try to put through. I expect that President

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Speaker 1: like Biden, once in office, will UH kill that and

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Speaker 1: we will go back to the Obama era fuel economy standards,

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Speaker 1: which will be a lot easier to meet with all

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Speaker 1: the electric vehicles coming out. Uh, there's a lot coming

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Speaker 1: up in one and I think a quick look ahead

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Speaker 1: at that. We have a new Transportation Secretary, if he's

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Speaker 1: approved by con by the Senate, UH Pete Bota mayor.

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Speaker 1: Mayor Pete will be facing a load of of challenges,

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Speaker 1: and one of which is the UH rapidly depleting Federal

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Speaker 1: Highway Trust Fund, the money used to pay for road repairs.

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Speaker 1: And we've got UH what is a tent of the

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Speaker 1: nation's bridges are substandard or failing roadways in Michigan or

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Speaker 1: a nightmare. UH So rebuilding me in a structure is

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Speaker 1: going to be the one of the big challenges coming

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Speaker 1: up with new safety standards. UH. The the NIZA that

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Speaker 1: basically overseas highway standards in the United States was completely

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Speaker 1: frozen under President Trump. He didn't have a permanent official

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Speaker 1: running that for four years. And there's a lot of bills,

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Speaker 1: a lot of new technology that could come out, but

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Speaker 1: the government couldn't do anything about it because there was

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Speaker 1: nobody there running the show. So that's something that may happen.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna see a lot of new product next year.

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Speaker 1: And one of the big questions is what happens to

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Speaker 1: gas prices and and what happens now that we're not

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Speaker 1: buying that much gas, no gas tax, no no money

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Speaker 1: to pay for infrastructure. Who's paying to fix the road? Yeah? Um,

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Speaker 1: that's one of the big problems is UH, is that

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Speaker 1: people are off the road, they're not putting gas in

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Speaker 1: their cars frequently, and we don't know what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: On the other hand, one last thing we will be

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Speaker 1: watching for. Will mass transit and ride sharing bounce back

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Speaker 1: once the vaccine, if it works, takes hold, as if

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Speaker 1: COVID starts to disappear, because mass transit has taken a

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Speaker 1: massive hit here in the United States, but so have

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Speaker 1: have services like we're in lift. People just don't want

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Speaker 1: to be, you know, in those vehicles or trains or

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Speaker 1: buses anymore. Right, So will mass Transit come back. It'll

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Speaker 1: be interesting. Paul, listen. I want to take a moment

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Speaker 1: and just real quick tell you it was a pleasure

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Speaker 1: having you with us this year. We look forward to

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Speaker 1: having you with us next year. And you're an essential

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Speaker 1: part of this radio show, and we want to tell

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Speaker 1: you we're very proud to have you, and we want

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Speaker 1: to say thank you, and we want to wish you

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Speaker 1: and yours happy new year. Alright, kiddo, Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 1: I've always always enjoyed coming on, so I look forward

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Speaker 1: to it with you, your family and all the listeners.

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Speaker 1: Are very safe and healthy holiday, and let's hope that

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Speaker 1: becomes a year that things begin to get back to normal.

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Speaker 1: We do too, Okay, Paul, you take good care of

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Speaker 1: mart any of the Car Doctor. We're back right after this.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back, we're name of the Car Doctor. Well, what

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Speaker 1: a busy, busy couple of hours here on the Car Doctor.

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Speaker 1: I just want to wrap this year up and say,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's been a real pleasure to be here

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Speaker 1: for each and every one of you. And I hope

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Speaker 1: in some way we were able to answer any and

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Speaker 1: all of your automotive questions. You know, it's uh, it's

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Speaker 1: an ever changing, ever growing, um uh plethora of issues

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Speaker 1: that people want to know about with their cars. And

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Speaker 1: where we stand ready, we're here. We're here for you

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Speaker 1: to help answer and address those questions wherever they might be.

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Speaker 1: So in the coming year, I want to take a

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Speaker 1: moment and wish you all uh kindness, health, wealth, prosperity,

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Speaker 1: and uh hopefully ties behind us and we can look

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Speaker 1: forward to the new year and um you know, we

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Speaker 1: can uh continue to learn about cars and talk about

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Speaker 1: it because that's what we're here for. As I said,

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Speaker 1: I'm in awe that you know, next month we begin

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Speaker 1: our thirtieth year. I think it's our thirtieth year broadcasting

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Speaker 1: doing the Car Doctor radio show, and I'm just sort

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Speaker 1: of staggered by it that, you know, where did thirty

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Speaker 1: years go? Um uh, you know, I can't begin to

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Speaker 1: tell you. It's it's it's a it's an overwhelming feeling.

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Speaker 1: But to be here for you each and every week

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Speaker 1: as a real honor, I really mean that, and I'm

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Speaker 1: glad that you consider us important enough to be part

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Speaker 1: of your every day, every weekend, uh you know life

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Speaker 1: like this, I'm running any of the car doctor, Happy

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Speaker 1: New Year until the next time, each time, every time,

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Speaker 1: reminding you good mechanics aren't expensive, They're priceless. See you