Hello and welcome to Car Talk from National Public Radio with us Click and Clack the Tappert Brothers,

and we're broadcasting this week from the Wonders of Technology Division, not department,

division. It's an entire division, yeah.

Here at Car Talk Plaza. Go ahead, Tommy. And here it is. Man goes to his dealership and

picks up one of those brand new Mercedes SUVs. As he's driving home, he turns on the radio and nothing happens.

Furious, he goes back and tells the sales consultant, when I buy a $50,000 vehicle, I expect a stupid

radio to work. Salesman says, the radio has been pre-programmed to your voice, sir, and all you have to do

is tell the radio what you want to hear,

and it will play.

Guy gets back in his car, and he says, country music, and Willie Nelson starts singing.

Wow.

He says, rock and roll, and immediately Elvis started crooning.

Easy listening, he remarks.

And all at once, it sounded like he was in an elevator.

Later that day, he was relaxed.

He's driving up Route 128 outside of Boston, listening to smooth sounds,

when all of a sudden, another SUV with two typical Boston drivers,

almost runs him off the road.

Morons, he screams.

The radio immediately blurts out.

This is click and clack the tapper for the international public radio.

I saw it coming a mile away.

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