Germany's Diesel Town Clambers For a Future

An employee wears a pair of Hololens 3D glasses while holding gear wheels for an automatic automobile transmission system during an Industry 4.0 presentation at the ZF Friedrichshafen AG factory in Saarbruecken, Germany, on Thursday, March 15, 2018. While fallout from Volkswagen AG emissions scandal puts diesel at greater risk than other conventional-car technologies, Germanys entire auto sector is threatened as the value in future models will largely come from systems that monitor and operate the vehiclewith the metal-and-rubber underpinnings likely little more than commodities. Photographer: Krisztian Bocsi/Bloomberg via Getty Images