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VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough
(www.thedrive.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Where with "going under" you presumably mean "doesn't overtake Toyota and stays the 2nd biggest car company world-wide". That's by number of cars, by revenue VW is in first place.
I'd say it's more a case of "yeah we should've guessed that how Tesla does things is just hype".