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2 Percent Of Volkswagen Workers Contract Coronavirus

2 Percent Of Volkswagen Workers Contract Coronavirus

Volkswagen AG’s Mexican unit said about two per cent of its workers tested for coronavirus had contracted the disease at some point.

This underlined the challenge faced by automakers in reopening factories before the pandemic has peaked in Mexico.

Volkswagen last Tuesday began sending workers, in reduced numbers, back to its factory in the city of Puebla, where the German automaker, and its luxury brand unit, Audi have major plants.

Many other major carmakers, especially from the United States and Japan, had resumed operations in other parts of Mexico a couple of weeks earlier.

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Volkswagen Volkswagen Introduces New Anti-Accident Car Software

Volkswagen Introduces New Anti-Accident Car Software

Volkswagen says it will launch a new software operating system this year that it hopes will make accidents involving its cars a thing of the past by 2050.

Next-generation cars will be equipped with software, sensors and processors that enable vehicles to anticipate and avoid accidents, and to keep learning new reflexes, the German car brand’s strategy chief Michael Jost said in Berlin on Thursday.

“We want to have no more accidents by 2050,” he said.

The new software-based vehicle operating system, which is being launched with Volkswagen’s new ID:3 electric car, will be continually updated as software algorithms …