Technology is Evolving in New Cars

Over the years technology has evolved in drastic ways in vehicles.  Most vehicles today are hard-pressed to come equipped with a tape player but typically all come standard with a CD player.  If you are really fortunate, your vehicle has a multi-disc player! Over the last 5 years cars have started to come standard with ports for plugging in Ipods and mp3 players.  It is not a stretch to say that technology in vehicles has moved quicker than most people ever could have imagined.

As that trend is analyzed by professionals in the business it is not too hard to figure out that more will happen as the years continue to pass by.  In fact, as recently reported by http://autonews.com, the research firm Strategy Analytics says the number of vehicles manufactured without a CD player will raise from 300,000 this year to 12.1 million by 2018.  Just 15 years ago CD players were becoming standard in cars and now we are already looking at a future without them.  It is no surprise as most consumers find CDs to be a thing of the past and are moving towards the use of smaller devices that will store all of the music they love in one spot.

One professional in the auto-manufacturing business discussed the benefits to this change as freeing up some added weight in a vehicle.  He claimed that the average CD player weighs about 5 pounds and any amount of weight they can shed from a new car means better fuel efficiency.

If a CD player is still a must-have on your car shopping list, rest assured…they aren’t gone yet.  Check out your local Weiss used Toyota St. Louis cars dealer for the best in electronic technology.