Short video clip (YouTube) featuring Chris Collins discussing the near-future of automotive service departments. Collins argues service shops should ‘get really good at tires and alignments,’ predicts that dense cities may implement driverless-car grids requiring vehicles to be retrofitted, and suggests this retrofit demand and alignment/tire work will create opportunities for service centers. The clip ends with promotional calls-to-action (subscribe, a phone line, and offers page).
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Foreign. Let's talk about the future of service departments. So I think you kind of have, you have two sides of this story, right? You have like the doom and gloom where that the industry is going to change and there's no maintenance to be done on electric cars. And then you have the. Everything's going to be all right. Where do you fall in that equation? The doom and gloom or that everything's going to be all right? I fall way more along the line of we need to get really good at tires and alignments. Yeah, get really good at tires and alignments.
What about the idea, this is a theory of mine, but I think based on a lot of facts that cities like Los Angeles, New York, Dallas are going to implement grids for driverless cars. Because the thing with driverless cars is they're not as efficient if they're not all on it. So, yeah, zones where once you come into la, this area of la, there's no more stoplights. It's all air traffic control through the grid, the cloud and cars have to be turned on to the grid and that's it. Because it eliminates traffic. It's safer there. You know, it's more efficient.
People are going to need their cars retrofitted. I think that there, there's, you know, there's already 50 companies out there working on driverless technology, but I think big corporations like BMW, Volkswagen will have their own version of it. I think Apple will probably sell their technology also. I've read that that's one of the things besides a car that they're working on is retro kits that would upgrade current vehicles to be driverless. So don't you think that service departments will be inundated in cities that make it mandatory in the next five to seven years that the cars are driverless, that all the used cars will be upgraded before they're sold to that in that area and people will be wanting to have that done so they can go into that area to work. Yeah, I think that that's a. That's probably going to be one of the last big hurrahs of the service center. Right. It will happen more in populated areas. Yeah, no doubt. So I think that we will have huge opportunity there. Thanks so much for watching this clip of Service Driver Revol. We're uploading new stuff every day, so make sure you subscribe and click the bell icon so you don't miss out. If you have a question you'd like us to answer on the show, call 8333 Ask SDR and we'll answer your question on the show. That's 8333 Ask SDR for special deals on our books and training. Head over to offers.chriscollinsinc.com no, that's offers.com Chris Collinsinc.com I'm Chris Collins, and I'll see you in the next video.
