VW to step up spending on automated truck technology

Volkswagen's truck division will spend about half a billion euros ($569 million) by the end of the decade to improve automated connectivity of heavy-goods vehicles, it said on Monday. MAN, part of VW's trucks division, used an event in Munich to demonstrate the feasibility of truck "platooning", in which a human-driven truck is followed in convoy by semi-automated trucks. German rival Daimler has been at the forefront of truckmakers' push into self-driving heavy-goods vehicles, citing improvemen