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DETROIT—General Motors said Monday that it will cut 15 percent of its salaried workforce, estimated to be around 14,700 people in North America, and that it will idle factories in Michigan, Ohio, Maryland and Canada.

WOLFSBURG, Germany—Volkswagen has installed a metal additive manufacturing system at its assembly plant here.

NORTH CHARLESTON, SC—The Cummins Inc. factory here assembled its 5 millionth turbocharger earlier this month, marking a milestone at the plant, which is on track for a record year of production.

KETTERING, OH—Tenneco will nearly double the workforce at its assembly plant here, adding 300 jobs as part of a $61.5 million expansion project.

In the early days of air transport, pilots relied on a nationwide network of beacons for night time navigation. A hundred years later, the first generation of autonomous vehicles may also rely on light beams to navigate safely.