Hi everybody welcome to shift a podcast about mobility I'm Pete Bigelow, your host and reporter at the Automotive News.

I'm Alexis St. John Tech and Suppliers reporter for Automotive News.

And I'm Leslie Allen. I am the editor of Shift magazine.

Thank you all for listening today, especially in the midst of the coronavirus crisis that we are all dealing with. Hope you are doing well.

We continue to work from home

and are recording our podcast remotely via Zoom,

bringing you the latest in mobility developments.

Later in the episode, we'll be talking with John Chin, CEO of Loonwave, a company that's

making a new radar unit for driver assist systems and autonomous vehicles.

But first we're going to go around and cover some of the

latest developments in the automotive and mobility landscape that are coming

fast and furious during the coronavirus crisis right now.

Oh yes, Pete, of course, it's shaking up the industry.

We know, every day, our website, auto news.com, is just hopping with news. I mean, we are driving our web editors crazy.

So many things are happening by the minute. Plants are closing throughout North America. We have General Motors and Ford, you

know cutting back on salaries for some executives. Some executives are deferring their salaries.

And we have even you know tragically

we have some workers who have succumbed to the illness this is really really

unprecedented in this industry just to see how much this is affecting

everybody worldwide. And I know that, Alexa, there have been some stories from automakers and suppliers can you tell

us what they're doing to help to battle this virus?

Certainly I mean amid the crisis here, many auto companies are trying to kick in gear, trying

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