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by verdverm 1237 days ago
Politics, regulations, and entrenched interests. Cars are not really direct to consumer yet. Tesla is the exception and some states do not allow this practice, so people buy Tesla out of state to circumvent
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It is all fair points.

I am more interested in the WHY and the theory behind why some markets are digitalized and others are not. I appreciate it is probably a relatively new area of research, but given the number of digital efforts made by Silicon Valley to build the next “the Amazon for xyz” I would have guess there are some academic research available.