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America's rural landscape is aging quickly, with more than one in five older Americans living miles from essential services. The latest Census Bureau data reveals a startling reality: in states like Vermont and Maine, over 60% of seniors live in rural communities where the nearest neighbor could be miles away, and basic necessities require long drives. This demographic shift presents unprecedented challenges around healthcare access, transportation, and social isolation that demand innovative solutions.
Meanwhile, iconic American manufacturer Harley-Davidson faces an existential crisis. The legendary motorcycle brand built its reputation on premium cruisers that commanded both the road and high prices. But as baby boomers age out of riding completely—facing five times higher risk of fatal accidents—and younger riders hesitate at $30,000+ price tags, Harley must reinvent itself or risk fading into history. Management decisions to focus solely on high-margin products while ignoring dealer feedback echo cautionary tales from other legacy manufacturers who failed to adapt to changing markets.
Technology continues to transform mobility in unexpected ways, from self-driving trash receptacles that could revolutionize waste management to shifting patterns in vehicle theft. Americans generate nearly 2,000 pounds of trash annually per person, creating huge environmental challenges that AI-powered sorting systems and autonomous collection might help address. Meanwhile, despite advanced anti-theft tech, a vehicle disappears every 37 seconds across America, with certain models like the Hyundai Elantra proving especially vulnerable due to security flaws.
The TechMobility Show explores these interconnected challenges at the crossroads of demographics, technology, and transportation. Whether examining rural healthcare access, the future of iconic American brands, or innovative approaches to environmental sustainability, each story demonstrates how mobility extends far beyond just moving from one place to another—it influences almost every aspect of American life.
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Speaker 3:I'm Ken Chester On the docket the legendary challenges of Harley Davidson, self-driving trash bins and the most stolen cars in America. To add your voice to the conversation, be it to ask a question, share an opinion or even suggest a future topic of discussion, that number 872-222-9793. Or you can email the show directly. Talk at techmobilityshow From the Tech Mobility News Desk. I want to talk about something that, if you live in rural America, you may already realize, but for the rest of the United States you might not. America, you may already realize, but for the rest of the United States you might not. And this is a piece that follows the US Census Bureau numbers on older population in rural America, and the opening line is this In some states, more than half of older residents live in rural areas. In some states, over 50% of older folk in rural areas. In some states, over 50% of older folk and they're defining that as folks over the age of 65, which means us boomers, most of us actually, and it opens with this More than one in five older Americans live in rural areas, many concentrated in states where most half of population of their older more than half of their older populations are in rural areas. A new report the older population of rural America 2012 to 2016,. And that's by the US Census Bureau, shows that 17.5% of the rural population was 65 years and older, compared to 13.8% in urban areas. The share of the population 65 and older in completely rural counties was the highest in the middle of the country. That's not a surprise to me.
Speaker 3:Forming a path from North Dakota to Texas, let me stop right there. From North Dakota to Texas, you are talking about the nation's basically, bread basket. It's where the wheat is grown, it's where the corn is grown, it's where the soybeans are grown, it's where hogs and sheep and pigs are raised, from Minnesota all the way down to Texas, right here in the middle part of the country, and you're talking about farms and a rural way of life that's been passed down in families. Here in Iowa, there are some families that have been here for over 100 years. We have this thing in Iowa called Century Farms, and what they are is they're recognized by the state of being in the same family for over 100 years, and we have numerous Century Farms For over 100 years and we have numerous century farms. So it makes no, it's not a surprise and a lot of people I talk to the way the cycle goes. You got the farmer Kid grows up, he goes to Iowa State or he goes to University of Iowa. He graduates, or she and come back home to help work the farm. Or maybe they work in town for a little bit and use the skills they've learned to come back on the farm help mom and dad or grandpa and grandpa, and in the end they end up taking over the acreage and it stays in the family. That's not a surprise out here.
Speaker 3:According to the 2012-2016 American Community Survey data, there were 46.2 million older people in the United States, 10.6 million of them in areas designated as rural. Here's the other thing to think about. In rural America, if you need something I don't care whether you're going to the feed store, the convenience store or the grocery store you get in your vehicle. You're going to drive a minimum of 20, 30 miles Round trip minimum. That's the way it is out here. There's not closeness. That's why it's rural. You're looking at acreages at least and I'm speaking about Iowa You're looking at acreages where your nearest neighbor might be two miles away. You learn to be very self-reliant out here. But again, that leads to the challenge If you've got an aging, older population in rural areas. Isolation, depression and access to health care become major issues. Transportation becomes a major issue, particularly if you're still out there on the homestead living and maybe you're 5, 10 miles from town. And even that has a definition, because when you say that the town you might be defining may be all of 1,500, 2,000 people, you may be a lot further away from a major metropolitan area and that becomes an issue if you've got major health problems that need that level of expertise and attention. This will blow your mind, because I wasn't ready for this.
Speaker 3:Next thing, and again, this is from the Census Bureau the two states that has the largest percentage of older rural population. I just knew Iowa would be one of them. No, not even out here, would you believe. Vermont and Maine 65.3% in Vermont and 62.7% in Maine. By comparison, the District of Columbia had none, new Jersey 5.8% and California 7.1% had the smallest percentages.
Speaker 3:The rural share of older population in 33 states exceeded the national average. Now the national average is 22.9%. It means that 22.9% of folk that are considered older live on average in rural areas. 33%—i'm sorry 33 states exceeded that average Arkansas, maine, mississippi, vermont and West Virginia. More than half of the older population in the entire state lived in rural areas. The demographics and the logistics of that is huge, because the very help they need requires them to be close to the population areas and yet they're further out and it also masks a lot of problems, rural poverty being food secure, having access to what you need when you need it, and we're not even going to talk about what happens if you get hurt or really sick and you need to get to a hospital. You've been following the news and what we're seeing in broad swaths of the United States is a retraction of health care in rural areas, namely rural hospitals and physicians. General practice physicians in Iowa have been a problem for years, let alone being in smaller towns.
Speaker 3:So what does this mean? Where are we going with this? Let me throw this at you Now, on the flip side, while you're thinking about that question in eight states, 10% or less of the older population lived in rural areas California, district of Columbia, florida, hawaii, massachusetts, nevada, new Jersey and Rhode Island. I'm going to pick on Florida for a minute. Let me read that again In eight states, 10% or less of the older population lived in rural areas. Hold it, because you're saying but Ken isn't. Florida have a lot of old folk in it? Yes, it does. So let's turn that on its ear, at least in the case of Florida, and say that a lot of Florida isn't rural. I would say, probably you're looking at the northern, central part of the state and in the panhandle and of course most of the people live south of Gainesville. They live in Fort Lauderdale, miami, tampa and Point South and no, they don't live in the Everglades. So that's not an issue.
Speaker 3:In Massachusetts, that 5.1 million folk in the 13 counties that make up the Commonwealth, there's not a whole lot of rural area. In the case of Massachusetts, most of the population lives east of Worcester. Worcester is in the central part of the state. I know because I was born there. So when you're talking about rural Massachusetts, you're really talking about points west of Worcester, about the western half of the state. But again, rural populations, boomers, the need for health care, the need for transportation, the need for just being able to get around and have access to the services you need. This is a big deal and if you're wondering about Iowa, we're at 41.3% and we rank number 12th. In case you were wondering, an iconic motorcycle manufacturer confronts current challenges to its very existence. You are listening to the Tech Mobility Show.
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Speaker 3:Power and safety living in perfect harmony. That was from 2005,. 20 years ago, acura was breaking ground with the MDX which, by the way, is still in their stable of SUVs and was one of their first SUVs. As Americans continued and as their truck-loving ways grew, it grew into SUVs, crossovers and the like, and Acura was one of the ones out front defining what a luxury SUV should be and might look like. So that was groundbreaking back then. Now, nowadays, luxury SUVs are all the rage and pretty much everybody makes one. Back then, not so much, we were just getting serious about pickup trucks. At the time, there were a few quote unquote luxury SUVs out there, but nothing that size. So Acura was breaking ground, taking names and making history all at once with the MDX Big, bold, massive in your face.
Speaker 3:That has been the legacy of Harley Davidson since its founding in 1903. As America's premier manufacturer of large boulevard bikes, its legacy has even been applied to Ford F-150 pickup trucks in the past with their Harley Davidson Edition models. But capitalism has little patience for history and iconic brands like as HD finds itself in the fight of its life again. So where does it go from here? This is Topic A. This is topic A. Honestly, there's almost nothing as more American as a Harley Davidson bike. Generally they are manufactured in Milwaukee and the company has a plant in Pennsylvania and they do import some parts. But basically they're American made. And if you own a Harley, there's reasons. It's the boulevard ride, it's a big bike, it commands the road, it's the sound, it's that in your face, king of the road, it's my highway and you're just a passenger kind of feeling. Challenge is those bikes run 30 grand plus and not everybody can afford them. Plus the times they are a changing and we're not even going to talk tariffs because that is kicking them in the mouth too. But I want to talk a little bit about the company itself.
Speaker 3:Harley has had a variety of owners, including a time where the company management actually raised money and took it private in the early 1980s. But like any major manufacturer that is, consumer facing and building capital goods, durable goods that last longer than a year Harley's got the same problem you get comfortable, you get spoiled, you start believing your own press, all of which Harley did. Management decided to capitalize on the more expensive bikes. Well, the catch-22 is this those were aimed at baby boomers. Problem is, baby boomers are aging out of the point where they can even ride a Harley. It's not a light bike and, unfortunately, motorcycle riders above a certain age are way more likely to get maimed or killed in motorcycle mishaps, meaning, if you're a boomer trying to ride a motorcycle, the chances of you having a mishap that would be fatal is five times greater than average Five times.
Speaker 3:So what is a company to do? Well, I've talked a lot about various manufacturers on this program and, unfortunately, what Harley's doing is following a familiar pattern Develop the product product everybody loves, you're in your sweet spot and you get lazy, you get comfortable, you think that whatever you do will be fine. So Harley saying you know, we've got this brand, this is an awesome brand, and we got people who can afford it. So we're going to major on the upper end of our range, we are going to maximize profit and we're going to sell expensive bikes. One problem with that the people you're selling them to. That number of people is dropping and the people that you want to attract to the bike can't afford it. Does this sound familiar?
Speaker 3:Jeep was in that cycle before they fired their CEO. Remember the Jeep Wrangler for $108,000? Yeah, no. And then, like another company I know and love. Harley was ignoring their dealers. Their dealers said, hey, we need a less expensive bike, hey, we need this, we need that. Uh-uh, nope, harley Corporate thought they knew best and the dealers felt alienated. The dealers weren't getting the support they needed.
Speaker 3:And here's an interesting thing about Harley, or about most motorcycle manufacturers the dealers make most of their money on accessories, unlike a car where you would order most of what you want from the factory and you might do a few things to it afterwards. Major piece of money for a motorcycle dealer is accessories that they add for a profit, and the factory wasn't trying to hear that. They were making it easier for the consumer by ordering them from the factory and the factory was installing the parts, but it was taking money away from the dealers. And if that wasn't bad enough, on top of all of that, and if that wasn't bad enough, on top of all of that, they were wanting dealers to spend a million, two million dollars in these very expensive dealership makeovers. Now you would think they would take maybe a leaf from the auto industry.
Speaker 3:Most automakers the smart ones anyway, that are looking for dealers to upgrade their facilities will make money available in some sort of sales formula. In other words, if you're in a given market and you're at a certain volume, you know we'll kick in this much money towards your remodeling and obviously the larger the market, the more money they kick in. But it's a bigger palace. Smaller markets less money. The more money they kick in. But it's a bigger palace, smaller markets less money. But the manufacturer is kicking in money to facilitate and make possible the upgrades. Harley's not doing that. And if you're a smaller dealer looking at, okay, the factory's taking away a major source of my income by making equipment that I would have added after market standard on the motorcycles they're selling. So that money's gone from me and you want me to spend this other money and you're not kicking in anything.
Speaker 3:Obviously Harley started losing dealers Kind of makes sense. So where do we go from here? And we haven't even talked about the whole e-bike craze and Harley's tried to do that. But they're not really getting it together. Because if you're trying to market to boomers, boomers want the whole experience, they want the Harley sound, the Harley rumble, they want the way the bike is, as opposed to younger folks who are looking for price and certain other things that you're not getting. They got to get this together and then you know you've got input prices which are becoming a problem. What do you do? What do you do? What do you do? Self-driving trash bins the future. We discuss that next. This is the Tech Mobility Show.
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Speaker 3:Did you know that TechMobility has a YouTube channel? Hi, I'm Ken Chester, host of the TechMobility Show. Each week, I upload a few short videos of some of the hot topics that I cover during my weekly radio program. I've designed these videos to be informative and entertaining. It's another way to keep up on current mobility and technology news and information. Be sure to watch, like and subscribe to my channel. That's the Tech Mobility Show on YouTube. Check it out.
Speaker 3:It's 5.30 in the morning. Do you know where your trash receptacle is? This could be the next frontier for autonomous vehicles In the coming years. Instead of jumping out of bed, your self-driving trash receptacle would have already taken itself to the curb. Is this the future? Welcome to Topic B Autonomous vehicles, trucks, robo-taxis, personal cars, aircraft, even delivery vehicles, which we've talked about at length in previous years, delivering stuff like pizzas and things to college students. Now we're down to receptacles, actual trash receptacles that have enough knowledge to take itself to the curb. Does that sound kind of bougie, maybe? Maybe a little too upscale? Well, hear me out a minute.
Speaker 3:Urban planners, the refuge industry and cities across the country are reimagining how we manage and dispose of our waste. The New York City Department of Sanitation and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are among those leveraging artificial intelligence, robotics and electric power to tackle a growing garbage crisis fueled by cheap products and a throwaway culture. You might not know this, but it shouldn't surprise you. Americans are among the top producers of trash per capita. Each person, each of us, each of the 332 million Americans disposes of nearly 2,000 pounds of trash a year. That's a lot of garbage, and that's back in 2018. Those are figures from the US EPA back in 2018. Those are figures from the US EPA back in 2018.
Speaker 3:Simplifying trash day and diverting the 80% of reusable material that still ends up in landfill is one key to solving our problems, and that's, according to Javier Lojan, acting commissioner of the New York City Department of Transportation, what he says. We want it easier for residents to recycle and for us to recover more recyclable materials. Well, think about this for a minute. If you are able to capture stuff that can be recycled, it means using less energy, labor and resources to make it new from virgin materials, because anytime you recycle, usually the energy involved is much, much less than if you made it the first time. It's easier to reclaim because you're reusing or repurposing Again. No surprise, most Americans don't recycle regularly, citing the inconvenience and a confusion involved in sorting their trash.
Speaker 3:Let me stop right here. If you live in Iowa, chances are that you're probably still recycling your bottles and cans. Why? Because we have a bottle law here and you can get anywhere from a nickel to 10 cents a can or a bottle. So, yeah, most of your larger cities either have redemption centers or some of the larger supermarkets have them within stores and you bring them in, you process them, you get a ticket and it turns it into money and, depending, it could be like 10 or 20 dollars worth. So, yeah, it's a nice little piece of pocket change. So it works. It works out here and it certainly can. I don't know how many states have something like that, but in Iowa it's been as long as I've been. And, yeah, everybody saves it. In fact, I've got dairy bottles that are glass bottles for my dairy cream. Those get two dollars a piece. You better believe I save them. And yeah, you get charged the deposit when you buy it, which is other motivation. Bring it back and, yeah, at $2, you know full well that's going back.
Speaker 3:I'm not throwing $2 away, absolutely not One-way recycling what they're looking at is they would like to move to what you would call well, you would think common sense, but what the sanitation engineers are promoting, and they call it a new system, what they call the single stream model. Now, here again in Iowa, most cities and towns, we've got two different receptacles. We've got it for mostly trash and recyclable trash, which typically is cardboard, typically, and most households have to and you put out the blue one, which is the recycle stuff, one day. You put out the regular trash in the other day. That stuff can get fouled. If you put the wrong stuff in there, like, for example, if you put any food scraps in there, that whole load is foul. They can't use it. What sanitation engineers are talking about now is okay, we don't care, put it all in there. Residents throw everything in one trash bin, in other words, the way it used to be. However, how they deal with it is different. The waste is transported to a remote facility where AI-powered cameras and robots sort it, diverting items that can be recycled. The real goal is to have a system that's more circular, that can reuse and recycle things more.
Speaker 3:Quick question here you go. What is the most recycled thing in the United States? Can you tell me what is the thing we recycle the most. You ready your car, your car, what? When they? When? We got a whole system over 100 years and we capture most of the steel, most of the aluminum, most of the metals that go into a manufacturing of a motor vehicle car, truck, minivan, doesn't matter and they're high almost 80% across steel, aluminum, manganese, all the kinds of metals that go into it. We're good at recapturing that and, as a result, it lowers the need for virgin steel and all the things with it, which is great, because steel is a leading contributor to climate change. You need carbon, you need heat, a lot of emissions, and many mills have been the raid for a year Electric art mills that basically melt this metal and repurpose it. Your car, you get more use, secondary use. Third, fourth, heaven knows use out of your car. Here's something else you probably didn't know On the average, from the time that vehicle rolls out of the end of an assembly line to the day it meets a shredder to the day it meets a shredder is 20 years, and the United States basically scraps 11% of its vehicle inventory a year.
Speaker 3:So basically you're looking at roughly about 11 million vehicles that get scrapped a year. 11 million get scrapped a year and there's no telling that the new steel washer, dryer or something that you just took delivery of might have started life as a 1998 Plymouth. Who knew who knew. But we're talking about trash now. We're talking about garbage. We're talking about Americans' personal getting rid of stuff.
Speaker 3:Many large municipalities in the US, including Chicago, san Francisco, denver and LA, are already using single stream, but only for recycling and not other waste. It seems that the fly in the ointment here is biodegradable, basically food scraps, and what they're looking at and I'll get into it another time. I, in doing research for this feature, I found a really cool uh composter for the house cost a thousand dollars, but oh my god it. It was really cool and I think it would really work. So everything else is what they're trying to recycle. Food scraps and biodegradable organic stuff is still kind of the fly in the ointment in terms of recycling game and they want to do something relative to composting, which has a lot of other advantages, absolutely, but yeah, an automated, autonomous trash bin. Who would have thunk it? I wonder how far it would go and I wonder what it does in the snow. Next, we share the list of most stolen cars in the United States. Is your car on the list? We are the Tech Mobility Show.
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Speaker 3:Did you know that TechMobility has a YouTube channel? Hi, I'm Ken Chester, host of the TechMobility Show. Each week I upload a few short videos of some of the hot topics that I cover during my weekly radio program. I've designed these videos to be informative and entertaining. It's another way to keep up on current mobility and technology news and information. Be sure to watch, like and subscribe to my channel. That's the Tech Mobility Show on YouTube. Check it out. Check it out In 2024, a vehicle was stolen somewhere in the United States every 37 seconds.
Speaker 3:That works out to about 850,000 vehicles. And while different states have a different vehicle that's proven to be irresistible to thieves, there's some national trends worth discussing. This is topic C. You would think, with all the anti-theft devices currently available and standard in vehicles today, that that number would be nowhere near the hundreds of thousands of vehicles that get pinched every year, and there's some reasons for that. But before we get into that and I've got the vehicle by state that gets stolen the most but let's talk about in aggregate numbers, in total numbers, the number one vehicle in two largest states that gets stolen and I'm talking about Texas and California at the top of the list In aggregate numbers. Of that 850,000 vehicles, the number one vehicle stolen in Texas is actually in terms of single state. For one state it's the most, but it's not the most total, and I'll explain in a minute. In Texas, the vehicle most likely to be stolen in the Lone Star State is the Chevrolet Silverado Halfton. 6,453 of them were stolen last year, second place in aggregate numbers, state-specific. In last year, second place in aggregate numbers, state specific, would be California. Ironically, and you would think, oh no, california is an import state. It'd have to be an import. No, it is the Chevrolet Silverado half ton, just a little bit under at 6,248. And for a state specific, these are the two biggest states where they're stolen the most. But overall, nationally it's not. They're not even close In 20 different states.
Speaker 3:It's a car that got stolen, a specific car they got stolen the most in 20 different states, and that car is the hyundai elantra, reason being several fold from 2011 to 2021, that 10, 11 years. It lacked an electronic engine immobilizer, something that you thought every vehicle had, which is a standard nff device found in just about everything I thought. I thought it was found in everything. Similar size keyers have the same problem and it didn't help that there were TikTok videos showing how to beat the system and steal it, and the numbers are astronomical. It's crazy. Now these numbers were compiled from Finance Buzz, which got the numbers from claims filed with Auto Theft Insurance outfit National Insurance Crime Bureau. So these are solid statements.
Speaker 3:But here's a question I want to ask though Chevy Silverado for a minute. I pick on the hyundai elantra. Most of these vehicles gm's been building for the last 20 years come equipped with on star, whether it's whether it is on or not. And if you do have on star on in the vehicle, you could track the vehicle. Now law enforcement will tell you that if your vehicle is stolen, the sooner you report it, the most likely that you'll get it back. In fact, 80% of vehicles stolen they're able to retrieve within two days. If it takes you longer to tell them your vehicle's stolen, there's a problem. But 80%, 80%, 80%.
Speaker 3:Silverado wasn't just Texas and California, but seven other states and the Ford F-150 is number one in six other states. So in 13 states it's either a Chevy half-ton or a Ford half-ton. What is not on this list at all as being most stolen in any state and I'm not saying they're not being stolen at all. It's just not the number one in that state and that's the Ram pickup any of them. And I wonder why that is. I don't know if it's not desirable or the anti-theft is that good, but they don't make this list at all for any state.
Speaker 3:And in case you're wondering, because we're based in iowa and I got to do this, in terms of state number of thefts, I was the 43rd out of 50. We had 93. The top vehicle that was stolen 93 of them and yeah, it was the Chevy Silverado half ton, but only 93 of them in Iowa, a state with 99 counties and 3.1 million people and definitely a lot of Silverados. Now, they don't break down what years of this vehicle were stolen, so we don't know if they're really old ones, or maybe 10 or 12 year old ones or fairly new ones. All it says is this is the make that got stolen. So what you may actually be looking at is slightly older vehicles that don't have all the security features that a brand new 2020, 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 would have. And that's certainly a thing, because when we ran this a few years back, we found that one of the most stolen vehicles at that time was a 20-year-old Honda, 20 years old. I'm still getting over that and obviously you know part of this is a theft of opportunity, which is why Hyundai topped the list, constantly topped the list.
Speaker 3:Other vehicles that show up as for their states. If you're in New York, most stolen vehicle there was the Honda CRV, but it was only just under 1,800 of them. If you were in Illinois or Michigan and this is interesting Illinois or Michigan it was the Jeep Grand Cherokee and together it was only 3,100 of them stolen combined. If you are in Tennessee, it was the Nissan Maxima. Now, full disclosure Nissan has a major plant in Tennessee and I got to wonder if that didn't help, why the Maxima, which is no longer made it's been out of production since 2023, would be the one to get nabbed at 1,500 of them in Tennessee and, for the record, is the only state where the Maxima even shows up as number one theft. Now there's a smattering of Hondas in Oregon it's the Honda Civic, in South Carolina, honda Accord and here's one for you.
Speaker 3:Think about this one In Alabama. The most stolen vehicle in Alabama was the Toyota Camry 219 of them stolen Toyota Camry. I have nothing. And, of course, massachusetts has to be different. They got a tie In Massachusetts. It is as likely that your Honda Accord may be stolen as the Hyundai Elantra they don't break them out, but total combined is 241. In their time, yeah, yeah, Stolen. I think it's a matter of lock your car, take your keys, have your wits about you, don't leave it running. My goodness people, really in 2025, do I even need to say this and I leave you with this? Do I even need to say this and I leave you with this? The state of New Hampshire had the least number of vehicles stolen, at 19. Their number one was only 19 items. What was it? The only one on the list? The only one? It was a van, the GMC Savannah. Who knew? That's it for this edition of Tech Mobility Show. I'm Ken Chester.
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