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Car Becomes 'Smart' Enough to Make Purchases

  • USA Today, Tuesday, October 27, 2015 10:05 AM

Test driving a new car can be fun. Dealing with leasing paperwork not so much. Just as technology has made everything from toilet paper delivery to ride hailing app-tastically easy, it now promises to transform the once onerous dealership slog with a few swipes of a touchscreen. Visa and DocuSign are expected to announced a prototype app Monday at Money20/20, a payments industry conference in Las Vegas, that would allow consumers to walk into a dealership, ask for a car ordered up on an automaker's website, and drive away after the driver fingertip-signs documents that appear on an in-dash screen. In this scenario, the car salesman could be relegated to simply forking over the keys.

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