{
  "id": 20185,
  "url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/software-defined-car-lifespan-updates-eu-rules",
  "title": "Your phone gets five years of updates by law. Your car gets nothing",
  "summary": "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",
  "authors": "Darius Popa",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "us",
  "published_at": "2026-08-15T12:52:43.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-15T20:58:20.399Z",
  "source_slug": "x-the-next-web-ai",
  "source_name": "The Next Web AI",
  "source_homepage": "https://thenextweb.com/topic/artificial-intelligence",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/20185",
  "original_url": "https://thenextweb.com/news/software-defined-car-lifespan-updates-eu-rules",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}