How Did $60,000 Pickups Become Normal? Understanding Vehicle Pricing, CAFE Rollbacks, and AI Security Risks

Prices keep climbing, and the easy villain is “too much safety.” We pull that apart by taking a clear look at how active safety reduces injuries and claims, then follow the money to where it really pools: full-size trucks, SUVs, and premium trims designed to maximize profit. From holiday discounts that barely dent margins to the psychology of sub-brands like Denali and Avenir, we lay out why the average new vehicle sits near $50,000 and why a $60k pickup is the new normal.

Then we turn to policy and ask hard questions about the recent CAFE rollback. Automakers once pledged ambitious fuel-economy targets; now a lower bar opens the door to thirstier engines and higher pump bills. We weigh short-term sales against long-term competitiveness as global markets sprint toward hybrids and EVs. What does “choice” really mean if it nudges buyers toward pricier drivetrains and trims while public health and fuel costs foot the bill?

Finally, we zoom in on the frontier: humanoid robots and AI security. The most compelling robots may not look like us at all—purpose-built machines are winning on reliability and ROI, while companies grapple with the fiendishly complex challenge of robotic hands. At the same time, AI has supercharged cyber threats, turning defense into a true arms race in which code is written faster than it can be secured. We spotlight emerging AI-native platforms built to harden codebases, protect credentials, and monitor third-party risk, because the stakes now include utilities, finance, and core government systems.

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Chapters

• 1:20 Safety vs Affordability Myth
• 14:14 Humanoid Robots: Hype And Reality
• 22:24 Inside the CAFE Rollback: Who Gains and Who Pays
• 33:22 AI Security Enters the Arms Race: Can Defense Keep Up?

Transcript

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Safety vs Affordability Myth

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I'm Ken Chester. On the docket. A humanoid robot revolution is coming. The administration moves to slash fuel economy rules. And welcome to the AI Security Arms Race. To add your voice to the conversation, be it to ask a question, share an opinion, or suggest a topic for future discussion, call or text the TechMobility Hotline. That number, 872-222-9793, or you can email the show directly. Talk at Techmobility.show. For those of you who enjoy Substack, you can find me at Ken, the letter C, Iowa. That's K-E-N-C-I-O-W-A. I am a proud member of the Iowa Writers Collaborative, and that's where we reside. Come check it out. From the Tech Mobility News Desk. I want to talk about automotive safety and automotive affordability. Right now, this month, the automakers are in Washington, and the administration is considering rolling back some of the safety requirements because they allege that actually the influx of safety equipment over these last 10 to 15 years is the major reason why automobiles are expensive. I want to stop that misinformation right there. Let me stop. Yes, there is an added cost in having added safety features. But those costs are mitigated by lower insurance costs, lower claims, and the fact that chances are lower chances of injuries. When it comes to safety, let me just be blunt a minute. Detroit has a lousy record. What do I mean? You can go back 60 years to the Highway Safety Act of 1966, where it was then when the federal government started codifying rules and regulations relating to automotive safety. By the early 70s, as the federal government got more involved in specifying more safety and emissions equipment, Detroit howled, oh, we can never make it. Oh, we can't do it. Oh, it's going to cost so much money. Honda embarrassed them when it came to fuel economy and when in actually emissions. Because Honda developed an engine at that time in 1976 for the Honda Civic that did not require a catalytic converter and still met the federal rules that year as Detroit was scrambling. Detroit drugged their feet on airbags. Detroit drug their feet on analog brakes. Detroit drug their feet on a host of other things that we've only gotten in the last 15 to 20 years, which is four-wheel analog brakes, traction control, stability control. These are all things that have made things safer. And in the last 10 years, emergency, automatic emergency braking, the fact that you've got cameras around that you can actually see what's going on around your vehicle now, vehicles are way safer. People are not dying from the type of injuries that they were dying from even 15 years ago. There are a lot of reasons for the affordability issue. Wages, inputs, I mean, they're they're dealing with suppliers from around the world. There's costs all over the place. The fact that automakers' profitability in the last five to six years has been ridiculous. Let me refresh your memory about one other thing while we're on that subject. The automakers took that strike that the UAW put them under, whining and groaning at, oh my God, it's going to cost so much money, we can't possibly give them the kind of raise they're asking for. While at the same time telling Wall Street we have more than enough money to wait them out. We got billions of dollars made in profits to wait them out. The automaker's bottom line and the level of profit that they've got, particularly in trucks, and that's the other issue. Part of this thing is Americans love their pickup trucks. Americans love their SUVs. Doesn't cost that much to make a car. It costs way more to build an SUV. And guess what? Those trucks and SUV are ridiculously profitable for the automaker. Ridiculously profitable. If you go back 20 years, 20 years ago they were saying they were making, this is the automaker, not the dealer. The automaker, 20 years ago, was making 10 grand straight profit over and above cost.$10,000 a unit. It don't take all day to make that into billions right quick. Part of the reason why the average cost of vehicles, new vehicles, is 50 grand. Walk into any dealer, I don't care, any truck dealer, any light truck dealer, Stellantis, uh Dodge, I'm sorry, not Dodge, but Ram, uh Chevrolet, GMC, Ford, Dummatter, Toyota, Nissan, walk into their showrooms. Price a brand new half-ton pickup truck, dual cab, all-wheel drive with the comforts of home that you want. I guarantee you you're already at$60,000 to$65,000 before you even break a sweat. And I'm not even talking high-end. I'm talking mid-range. You want to go high-end, add$20,000. You're in$80,000 to$90,000 for a brand new pickup truck. And oh, you want a full-size body-on-frame SUV? You're going to be$75,000 to$85,000 minimum. And if you're buying a luxury one, higher than that. Killer part? GM's Arlington plant that builds all their full-size SUVs, running three shifts a day, seven days a week, can't keep up. GMC sells the Denali, which is their upscale subbrand. They sell more of those than the basic truck. Part of that is American tastes have changed. Americans want more. They want fancier. They want more. They want all this exotic stuff. That's not on, that part's not on the automakers, but the automakers will be glad to build them for you because they make so much money. Did you ever wonder why an automaker would start a sub brand like Buick's Avenir, GMC Denali? Because they can, within that sub-brand, go to a premium, make it a premium vehicle at a premium price. You're paying even more. Right now, the bill of goods they're trying to sell in Washington right now is that all the safety equipment is impacting affordability. That's bogus. Yeah, it was an increase, but not this much. Americans changing tastes, increasing cost of inputs, and the fact that the automakers are making a killing on selling this stuff. They are. You don't believe me? Check your check your TV ads. Right around the holidays, they were knocking off, and I'm not going to name the automaker, but they were knocking off between$10,000 to$13,000 off the sticker price of a full-size pickup truck brand new. Trust me, even at that level, they still make money. So who is it really a safety issue? Is it really a safety issue? Automotive news, which is a trade publication for the automotive industry, their opinion page. Do not sacrifice safety on the false altar of affordability. This is not some green piece or uh some safety advocate document. This is the automotive industry's main publication for the industry. Here's what they said. While safety technologies certainly contribute to rising collision repair costs and auto insurance premiums by extension, they also offset those costs in aggregate by preventing collisions and mitigating more serious crashes. And then they get into a whole bunch of stuff that I just talked to you about. Terms of pricing, markup, consumer demand, all of that stuff. Do not get fooled. It is not the safety equipment in today's vehicles that are making them so expensive. As usual in life, it's a little more complicated than that. But one thing's for sure consumers, what they want, and automakers what their profit is, are two major reasons why the average cost is 50 grand. Vehicles I've looked at, you can buy a passenger car for 30. A showdown is coming between mankind and humanoid robots. Is it hype or more like the movie iRobot? You are listening to Tech Mobility Show.

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Humanoid Robots: Hype And Reality

SPEAKER_02 13:22

For those of you that think push-button transmissions are a new thing, let me help you. It wasn't just the Edsel. The Chrysler Corporation went to push-button automatics in 1958. They would offer them through 1964. And literally push button on the dash and a little lever to put it, set it in park. It was pretty cool until 1965 when they went more conventional. But back then, uh the Dodge commercial was explaining to the populace how to operate it, which push and push in which order. And it was a new thing. It was a big deal. But then again, back then, a lot of vehicles were manual transmission. Automatic was one and two speeds back then. So this was a big, big deal. Dodge for 58, push button drive. Bringing robots that look and move like humans to households and factories is closer than ever. A number of companies have introduced various prototypes and pre-production models in recent years. But despite promises from a growing number of startups, fully autumn autonomous, root fully autonomous, gotta get those words right, humanoid robots are still years away. What? Me worry? This is topic A. It seems that when it comes to the future, I keep coming back to a couple of movies that I saw years ago. And I had to wonder. Now the one movie I'm thinking about starred Will Smith. It's called iRobot. And if I got my years right, iRobot was about early 2000s, and it talked about what the side plot was that this company developed uh robot assistance that was in every home that helped older folks with stuff and folks that were disabled with your choice and everything. Problem is the brain had a central brain that controlled them all, and the central brain decided to go rogue and take over. And that caused a whole bunch of drama. Funny thing is, those robots were designed to look somewhat human, but not exactly. I mean, they were still robots. They weren't they didn't have a human-looking skin or everything. But they had arms and hands and fingers, legs, things like that. Where are we now? The robot of the future may not look like a human at all. Particularly when it comes to factory applications. What these startups are finding out, what they're convinced of, is that it's easier, it makes more sense to utilize robots where in some cases they could plug in attachments right into them so they could use them to either lift, move, stack, arrange, bolt, screw on, whatever, as opposed to human hands. All the humanoid startup companies will tell you the most difficult thing in developing a human a human-like robot is the operation of the hands. Our hands, believe it or not, the most complex thing. Because we grip, we turn, we touch, we feel, and the hand does all of that. We take all of that for granted. But to try to replicate that in a robot, real tough. One of the major things, how much pressure do you apply? And how do you differentiate? Because the robot doesn't have any self-awareness in terms of knowing their own strength, so to speak. And then there's the issue of is this really the best application to make them human-like when really what you want is an assistant. For example, uh, in this article, they turn to uh a robot that a lot of people have in their homes, the Roomba uh automated vacuum cleaner. It looks nothing like a vacuum cleaner, but it's a robot. It's a cleaning robot. And it goes around the house, does its thing, doesn't have hands, doesn't have arms, not even a face, it's a circle. It's around a little circle with sweeper, and it does its thing. Goes back, recharges, learns your house, and vacuums accordingly. They really believe that the future looks more like that with purpose, particularly again in factories, purpose-built robots. Now there is a place, and it is a big, big opportunity. In this article, they say that robots that mimic humans are set to create a five trillion with a T dollar market. But they're not seeing that happen soon. While some companies are aiming to ramp up their efforts over the next several years, fewer than one million humanoid robots are expected to be sold in the United States by the end of the decade. A million is still a lot, though. According to Morgan Stanley's predictions. They estimate that it will take until 2036 for more than a million to be sold in a single year. And that 5 trillion number, they don't expect the industry to hit that until 2050. 2050 is 24 years away. It's not that far away. A second major issue for robots that the robot companies are working on, and is actually holding some of them back, is ensuring reliability. If you're gonna entrust a robot to a factory process, to home care, you want them things literally beyond bulletproof. Fail safe. Don't fail and don't harm. That's what they want. The irony that the developers will tell you is that optimizing a robot to look like a human often results in the robot performing poorly at specialized tasks. Think about that. Isn't that something? I wouldn't have never thought of that. As I mentioned earlier. Certain types of industrial robots don't need to mimic the human form to be effective. It's often more efficient to design a factory around the capabilities of specialized machines rather than retrofitting humanoids in a human spaces. Others argue that it makes sense to design robots that can eventually integrate into new environments designed for humans by humans. The promise of replicating a future previously only really witnessed in science fiction has also helped fuel investment in more than a dozen startups working on humanoid robots. So the reasonable question to ask right here is how does AI figure into this? Because it does. Right now, AI is not self-aware, not yet. Part of that challenge is going to be getting these things compatible to work in these various different environments. Human, not human, home, factory. They're different. The administration has moved the slash fuel economy rules with automaker support. Is that a good idea? This is the Tech Mobility Show.

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Inside the CAFE Rollback: Who Gains and Who Pays

SPEAKER_02 21:53

Did you know that Tech Mobility has a YouTube channel? Hi, I'm Ken Chester, host of the Tech Mobility Show. Each week, I upload a few short videos of some of the hot topics that I cover during my weekly radio program. I've designed these videos to be informative and entertaining. It's another way to keep up on current mobility and technology news and information. Be sure to watch, like, and subscribe to my channel. That's the Tech Mobility Show on YouTube. Check it out. Last month, the administration rolled back the corporate average fuel economy requirements, better known than CAFE, for the 2031 model year. Now pegged to 34.5 miles per gallon, it is a marked reduction from what had previously been in place. But is it a good idea though? This is topic B. I'm going to tell you right now, the little bit of hair I got left is on fire. I'm going to tell you why. Let me start right here. Right now, 14 years ago, 14 years ago, 90% of the automakers that sell vehicles in the United States of America made a deal voluntarily with the administration that they would meet, by 2028, they would meet corporate average fuel economy standards of 54.5 miles to the gallon. They had agreed. Now they are cheering this rollback. And they're talking about, oh, to give Americans what they want. Oh, to save them money. Yeah, let me help you with something. I'm going to give you a quote from an automaker in this story, and then I'm going to tell you what the real deal is. The opportunity, this is Stellantis CEO, Antonio Falosa, speaking at a Goldman Sachs conference a day after the White House announcement of rolling this back. He said, and I quote, the opportunities to boost production of VA powered vehicles are just huge. Falosa said Stellantis would likely expand output of its large engines, saying they could be added to the vehicles across multiple brands. Why is he so excited? I'll tell you why. Because right now, the V6 dual turbo hurricanes that these V8s will replace, bring back the Hemis. The V6s, follow me. The V6s turn out both of them, both configurations, more horsepower than the Hemi does. But guess what? You want a Hemi in your RAM, you're going to pay Stellantis$1,200 more for the privilege. No wonder Stellantis is happy. They're going to make money because people are going to have a Hemi, which is fine. That's your right as an American. But let's not get it twisted. This ain't got nothing to do with helping Americans lower the cost of vehicles. It's going to make our air worse. It's going to put our domestic automakers behind an eight-ball. Because here's the news flash. At 340 million people, we are barely 5% of the world's population. Okay? There are hundreds of countries these very same automakers do business in around the planet. And guess what? They're not looking to increase their internal combustion engine offerings. If anything, they're doubling down on electrics and hybrids. So you gotta wonder: if you are an automaker with billions of dollars that you have to allocate when looking at programs that take three to five years to launch, what's your end game here? Are you looking at making short-term profit from larger engines which pollute more, which gets worse fuel economy, which will cost the average American more money at the pump? And also, by the way, when you do that, you're also helping the oil companies because now, going back to your internal combustion engine vehicle, you're gonna buy more gasoline. And I wish I could say that that would help our brothers and sisters relative to ethanol, but it won't because this administration has given more waivers to the oil companies to avoid blending than anybody else. If it was up to them, they'd stop blending completely. But that's another conversation for another time. But I will remind you of this statistic, courtesy of the Iowa Corn Growers Association. In our state, 62% of the corn we grow goes into ethanol. 62%, six out of every 10 acres planted in corn in the Hawkeye State is made into ethanol. Let that settle. Uh by the automakers. Because they can go back under the guise of, well, we're giving Americans more choice. Are you really? Or are you just taking some short-term profit because you realize that across the rest of the world, the rest of the world's not thinking that way? And if you're going to do business around the world, still, you're going to be spending money on hybrids, you're going to be spending money on EVs, whether you like it or not, even if the United States doesn't. And oh yeah, this one's for my old friend Jim Farley at the Ford Motor Company. One minute, Jim says to the world, I've driven a Japanese EV, and oh my God, if we don't get our act together, we won't be around. Yeah, Farley was there. Farley was there at this meeting talking about going back. They just stopped making their pure electric EV truck. They still do make the Mustang Mach E, which is the only pure electric they got. They got a smattering of hybrids, but basically they're there. I can see GM's point. GM, while yes, they've canceled and shuffled some stuff, but bear this in mind. General Motors still makes three different EV pickup trucks. General Motors still makes an EV SUV. I want you to hear that. And they're doing hybrids. GM is big enough to spread their bets. And GM has said, Mary, uh, Barra has said, we're still going to commit, we're still committed to EVs. They're not closing plant zero. They've delayed some stuff, and oh yes, GM's switching a plant over in Lake Orion, Michigan, that was an EV plant to a pickup truck plant. Why? So they can build more gasoline engine pickup trucks. Why? Because we've talked about this before. Pickup trucks are crazy profitable. Where does the American consumer get out of this? Let me let me see. Okay. You're gonna build bigger gasoline engines, okay? Which get worse fuel economy, okay? Which pollute more, okay? Which are going into expensive pickup trucks, okay? And you're gonna pay extra for that motor. How is this helping affordability? How is this helping um situation at hand? It's not. This little this little talk wasn't for you, American consumer. This was for the automakers, this is for the oil companies, this is for everybody in that supply chain. You don't believe me? Okay, give it a year, walk into your Chevy dealer, see what your engine combinations are, and see if you're paying a premium for that new V8 they're bringing out. See if you ain't paying more money either through a higher trim level where it's standard or an opt-in standalone option. They ain't gonna make a standard, you're gonna pay. You're gonna pay. So, yeah, I I just can't I can't get over it. I really can't. And the fact that they had agreed to this 14 years ago. But they're changing now. In America, just America. This is not a worldwide thing they're doing. Just here. All I can see from where I sit and what I know, it looks like a money grab to me. Take the short-term money and run. What else is there? It's certainly not gonna make them less expensive, that's for sure. And I think we'll are gonna be a little worse off as a result of it. I just don't see any other way. I'm not happy about this. Make no mistake, it's a war, and the tool used on both sides is AI. Why you have a stake on the outcome? We are the Tech Mobility Show.

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AI Security Enters the Arms Race: Can Defense Keep Up?

SPEAKER_02 32:54

Did you know that Tech Mobility has a YouTube channel? Hi, I'm Ken Chester, host of the Tech Mobility Show. Each week, I upload a few short videos of some of the hot topics that I cover during my weekly radio program. I've designed these videos to be informative and entertaining. It's another way to keep up on current mobility and technology news and information. Be sure to watch, like, and subscribe to my channel. That's the Tech Mobility Show on YouTube. Check it out. In case you didn't know it, numerous bad actors around the world are using AI to supercharge their scams in nefarious ways. Go figure, right? A company called Dep First is the first in a number of companies that are meeting this challenge head-on. The company describes itself as, and I quote, an applied AI lab solving security's AI era problems. Welcome to the Cold War 2026. This is topic C. Deepfakes ain't problem enough. AI ain't problem enough. Imagine people meaning to do harm using the all the technology that was developed theoretically for good and convenience, for bad and evil. There's a town in Texas. China took over their water system. Santa Crazy. Little bitty town in the middle of nowhere. They did it again to a town in Massachusetts, Littleton, Massachusetts, not far from where I grew up. No reason, because they could. Other big cities have had denial of service attacks, have taken their systems down, weeks, months, school systems, companies. And that was before the widespread rollout of AI. Now they've gotten even more sophisticated. And this Cold War kind of reminds me back in the day in the late 1970s, early 1980s, uh, of the radar days. The police departments would develop a radar detection gun to detect your speed. Smart motorists would spend money to get radar detectors, radar jammers. Then the states got involved. And what would happen is they would improve radar detection. Then a company would improve uh the radar guns themselves. So everybody's spending money on both sides. And then finally, the states weighed in and made the detectors illegal. That is, if you can catch them. But it was a never-ending arms race of sorts. One side would get technologically advanced and the other side would catch up and it would go on. Here, honestly, they've been telling you this for years, and I think now more than ever before, it's true. The wars of the future, excuse me, the wars now are not necessarily going to always be fought with men and machines or shoot with even drones anymore. It's going to be deep into computer systems in the very core of operations of organizations and governments and businesses and individuals. It's going to be bad actors worming their way deep into these systems, causing havoc. That's why you need companies like Depp First. They have a deep bench of, and I won't read everybody's qualifications, but it's a deep bench in this area, which is why they recently raised um$40 million in what they call a Series A funding round. And this is what they had to say. And of course, at the same time, cyber defenders are also turning to the technology to fight back. This Dep First was founded in October 2024, and they had a number of venture capitalists put up some money. Depth First offers a platform they call General Security Intelligence, which is an AI-native suite that helps companies scan and analyze their code bases and workflows for signs of trouble. The company says the platform also allows companies to monitor to protect themselves from credential exposures and to monitor threats to their open source and third-party components. Credential exposures. You've had them where you've got, you know, two-mode verification, you've got captas, uh verifications that you're not a robot, all these little things. Problem is AI can dance circles around them. At anything, they'll stop the rookies, but they ain't gonna stop somebody if they really want to break in. Banks and fintech companies are particularly vulnerable right now as they're trying to do business, but yet protect themselves from the scams that they're getting hit with multiple times every single day. I mean, I shudder to think of what could happen should one of these cyber criminals gets into a core financial system like maybe Wall Street or the US Treasury. Shoot, any one of the central banks throughout the world, uh whether it be the English central bank, German central bank, Irish Central Bank, France Central Bank. Maybe you come in through a weakness through one of them to wreak havoc across the whole financial system. This could make the 1930s look like a cakewalk. And the thing is, they will have done it without firing a shot, without ever having to even step into the country in which they wreaked the havoc and stay anonymous and not even get caught and disappear. That's the scary part. That is why these companies are coming into play. They've said we've entered into an era where software is written faster than it can be secured. And they added that on top of this, AI, automation has changed how bad actors execute their attacks. AI has already changed how attackers work. Defense has to evolve just as fundamentally. Are you scared yet? I am. Because with all the little stuff that you deal with, all the little hacks that we read about, and all the ones we don't, how do we know, and what assurance do we have, that our core systems And I'm talking about core government systems, the systems at the Federal Reserve, the systems at the U.S. Treasury that pay trillions of dollars, move trillions of dollars of money. The IRS. How do we know all this stuff is safe? And the IRS is on record of having an extremely antiqued and squeaky system. Creaky and squeaky. That it is way overdue for upgrades. And no, I'm not a fan of the IRS, but they're holding so much information that somebody getting in there and doing manipulative stuff on the down low could be worse than dangerous. In so many ways that it isn't already. This is the new battle. AI against AI. Computer against computer. Programmer against programmer. And it g there's gonna be one upmanship. God only knows. Let's just hope that the good guys win. Let's just hope the good guys' game is better than the bad guys and can do whatever they need to do to keep us safe. Because honestly, this is where we're gonna need to be. All of us. To be aware, to be careful, and hope the heck that that is enough. And the way this is going, it may not be. We need to be aware, ever vigilant, every single kind of way you can be. Because it doesn't take much, and they're counting on you to be careless.

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To learn more about the Tech Mobility Show, start by visiting our website. I'm Ken Chester, host of the Tech Mobility Show. The website is a treasure trove of information about me and the show, as well as where to find it on the radio across the country. Keep up with the happenings at the Tech Mobility Show by visiting Techmobility.show. You can also drop us a line at talk at Techmobility.show.

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