Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing
Robert Ferris put the question to forecasters and executives for CNBC on 15 August. The average American car is now 12.8 years old, on Mobility Global’s figures. A new one costs close to $50,000, and nobody selling software-defined vehicles will say they last that long. Sam Fiorani forecasts vehicles for AutoForecastSolutions, and he gave the […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Published: 15 August 2026
Source: The Next Web AI
Category: News
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 15 August 2026
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