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ELI5: Why can't car manufacturers sell directly to consumers?

I hate dealing with salesman at dealerships. They are always assholeish.
gpt
Back in the day when cars were sold, they are unrealiable. They needed service & maintenance every now and then. So having a local place for service was essential. Also cars were huge investment and the customers need to be educated and given options before buying a car, hence physical sales office made sense.

But these sales-service office had to be owned by franchises, because  if manufacturers open a sales-service office they can undercut the franchised ones and make them go out of business, hence the franchise rules made sense in those days..

Now back to current. Hardly these days cars need any maintenance except oil change, tire rotation and brake change for the first 50K miles. Electric cars doesn't need oil change or even brake pads ( the brake pad won't worn out due to regenerative braking ).  Internet gives the user all information they want, most of the cases the users are more informed than even car sales people.

So dealership is stupid for any cars and it should die. For electric cars it doesn't need at all. 

Well what happens for local economy when the dealer ship dies, well they will suck it up and move on with other business. We can keep supporting something wrong just because it feeds one or two people and makes the owner filthy rich.