Volkswagen Investing $70.5 Billion in new technology

This kind of reporting is pretty irrelevant unless we know if this a decrease or increase over the prior 5 years worth of investment. Note that this amount includes new platform development as well as new factories and other infrastructure.

It sounds like a lot of money but VW is a seriously large company. For all we know, from 2005-2010 they spent 100b on new investments. The information is out of context and thus, not much use.

Hopefully it'll be spent on making cars that don't need constant servicing.

This is irrelevant. It's PR. Short as well. I don't understand why it got to the feed. Unless some users are voting after an order.

Hey Car Industry, how about just making the iPod connectors a default with the cars you ship? You'd think after a decade of iPods it'd be a given.

Having never owned an iPod but always having handheld gadgets around, I'd have to kindly hope that the default external audio/media connection is NOT to a an Apple product.

all they really need is a little 5mm jack on the front panel.

Agreed, in 10 years I'll probably still be driving that car, will I still need the proprietary Apple connector? Probably not.