Anthony Levandowski is a genius, albeit a flawed one, some say. After a career marked by technology triumphs and a generous dose of controversy at Uber and Google, the autonomous-driving pioneer now faces his greatest obstacle yet: possible prison time.
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Japan and South Korea carried on as business-as-usual in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, keeping their auto factories open until now. But the economic contagion is finally catching.
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Mid-April appears to be the earliest that most North America production could resume, but the deaths of at least eight UAW members at Ford and FCA underscore the worries many workers have about returning to the factory floor.
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When one of his employees' siblings tested positive for coronavirus, the chairman of a Michigan Ford dealership acted quickly, shuttering the store and switching commissioned workers to a daily pay rate.
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An earlier memo covered automotive repair and maintenance as well as transportation equipment manufacturing and distribution facilities. Guidance for retail operations, including leasing and rental activities, had not been clear.
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The pair are the first Ford employees known to have died from the virus. One of the victims worked at the automaker's Dearborn Stamping plant while the other was a skilled trades employee at the Ford Data Center in Dearborn, Mich., the UAW said. The union on Sunday confirmed two more deaths of FCA workers.
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The next Detroit auto show is now scheduled for June 2021, organizers told sponsors Saturday. The TCF Center, where the show was set to take place in June, is being converted by FEMA into a field hospital as coronavirus cases in Michigan rise.
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President Trump’s Friday fracas over ventilators caught GM completely off guard, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. By the evening, he dredged up an old grudge, taking another shot at GM for closing its Lordstown plant in Ohio.
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The settlement would resolve claims by owners who said they suffered economic losses from buying vehicles they thought were defect-free, only to see the ignition switch problem hurt GM's brand, reputation and resale values.
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New standards of cleanliness are emerging at dealerships and public transit centers to help protect customers and employees from exposure to the coronavirus.
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