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ARTICLE · 04 OCTOBER 2017

Is This The End Of The Internal Combustion Engine?

Recently, my 16-year-old son jumped into my car to drive it.

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Recently, my 16-year-old son jumped into my car to drive it.  It was his first time driving my car.  My car does not have keyless ignition.  He hopped in the driver's seat, threw the keys into the cup holder and asked "where is the button"?  He quite literally had no idea that some cars require the driver to insert the key in the ignition and turn the key.  In fact, the more that I thought about it, I am pretty sure that in his 16 years of life, he had never inserted a key in a lock and unlocked it.  Everything is a button, a touch pad, an app.  Now, I wonder, will his children ever drive a vehicle with an internal combustion engine.  California is talking about making it more and more unlikely.

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