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Your new car may nickle and dime you with subscription services

Newer vehicles are coming equipped with convenient and safety-driven software — but you may need to pay a monthly fee to access it.

Keith Barry, senior autos reporter at Consumer Reports, joins Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan to discuss why drivers may need to start paying for features that are already built into their cars.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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