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maybe you didn't know this but every year since oh four Americans have driven a little less per capita and while the economy and urbanization are key factors so is tech I'm Brian Cooley with the top five tech trends that are keeping us out of the driver's seat number five bike sharing I put this at number five because let's face it most of us are lazy and the appeal of riding gets a little narrow when it's snowing or you have to go pick up your dry cleaning but there's no denying an increase in City bike fleets that wouldn't work without digital technology that keeps the bike secured and authorizes their usage by members number four ride-sharing ride share networks like uber or lyft or sidecar transition you from driver to rider in someone else's vehicle and taxi services are also adopting apps to let you interact with them as well both trends make being a rider versus a driver just more satisfying however I rank this fairly low for now at least because cabs are nothing new and the impact of ride-sharing services is still taking shape regulatory and otherwise number three mobile phones not the use of them but the cost of them one of the major theories out there about why younger people have been buying fewer cars is that the money they would use to do so is already going to t-mobile and Verizon a plan and a subsidized phone can pretty easily hit one hundred and thirty five hundred fifty bucks a month even well that's a cheap car and basic insurance number two ecommerce no kidding one of the seismic shifts he used to be that shopping and cars were synonymous but today almost anything can be bought and at your doorstep in a day or two without the hassle of having to go get it at fifty six cents a mile on the other hand as big as this trend is I don't rank it as number one because we still do a lot of driving to go look at things in stores that we then go buy online number one is of course remote work whether you're telecommuting from home or a nearby shared workspace in your neighborhood driving to work every day is no longer a given this is huge because commuting accounts for some 64% of the total average my driven by each of us each year in the u.s. remote work technology nothing new but increasing acceptance of digitally being somewhere makes it more common and less likely to raise the boss's eyebrows stay on top of all the latest trends of modern driving at CNET on cars.com i'm brian Cooley thanks for watching