内容摘要："When you live with the condition, and you're working a five-day week and you need to carry on, you'll give anything a go."

"When you live with the condition, and you're working a five-day week and you need to carry on, you'll give anything a go."

The lowest April output before that - outside the pandemic - was back in 1952, when 53,517 vehicles were produced.Car production for exports fells by 10.1%, said the SMMT, driven by falls in demand from the UK's biggest export markets the US and EU.

The group said the total number of vehicles manufactured in the UK for the first four months of the year was the lowest since 2009.Nathan Coe, chief executive of online car seller Autotrader, said those exporting to the US have taken a bigger hit than the UK's domestic market, which he says remains buoyant."If you look at the UK market itself, actually, there's been more new cars sold, more used cars sold. But if you look at manufacturing itself, because of those export impacts, those numbers are down," he said.

He added the UK could be seen as an attractive market for foreign automakers, as it has now become expensive to sell cars in the US.The SMMT's figures show car production for the UK market was down by 3.3% in April compared to a year ago.

Autotrader's share price sank 12% early on Thursday as it reported a 5% bump in sales but warned of economics "uncertainties".

The downward trend in production is similar in other countries, said Prof Peter Wells, director of the Centre for Automotive Industry Research at Cardiff University.in the year to last September, up 3.7 million on the year before, costing retailers £2bn.

"We have recently installed a new system at some stores which helps customers using self-service checkouts identify if an item has not been scanned properly, making the checkout process quicker and easier," a Tesco spokesperson said.The supermarket did not say which stores or how many stores the new system was in.

If an item fails to scan, customers are shown a video on the self-service screen of their attempt, accompanied by a message saying: "The last item wasn't scanned properly. Remove from bagging area and try again."It follows a similar move by Sainsbury's, which has rolled out AI recognition technology at self-service checkouts at some of its stores.