CNN Student News - 04/27/16
Featured this Wednesday: a cheating scandal at Mitsubishi, a "robot revolution" in Japan, and a Character Study of a neurosurgeon who exemplifies perseverance.
CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR:
Welcome to ten minutes of international current events.
I'm Carl Azuz, broadcasting from the CNNCenter.
First up, shares of Mitsubishi Motors, a carmaker based in Japan, are in a record low.
Car companies are required to test the fuel efficiency, thegas mileage of their vehicles.
Now, Mitsubishi recently admitted that it had cheated on its fuel economy tests, essentially saying their cars gotbetter gas mileage than they really did and that the company has been doing this for as long as 25 years.
This includes the gas mileage for hundreds of thousands of vehicles, including some sold to the carmaker Nissan.
But only the Mitsubishi soldin Japan are believed to have the wrong gas mileage information.
The company says car sold in the U.S. and other countries were tested the rightway and have accurate fuel economy measurement.
The scandal has decreased Mitsubishi's market value by 50 percent.
