Our trip through the week’s stories including Mercedes-AMG’s first plug-in model, an accessible #VanLife-friendly RV, an update on the microchip shortage, and sobering news from NHTSA about car-related deaths.

Toyota started this year’s Tokyo Olympics on the wrong foot, when anger from Japanese citizens that the games were going forward amid the pandemic led the carmaker and Olympic partner to suspend its planned Olympics-related advertising in Japan. And now there’s a bookend stumble for the end of Toyota’s games: an autonomous shuttle operating in the Olympic Village during the Paralympic games collided with and injured a visually impaired athlete last week.
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