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VW slumps to first quarterly loss in at least 15 years

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Re: VW slumps to first quarterly loss in at least 15 years

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I don't buy the implication that this didn't go up extremely high in VW. I'm sure they'll find some low level drone(s) to take the fall like normal, but generally speaking if they were engineering and building cars which they KNEW couldn't pass emmissions it had to have been a concerted effort to cheat the system inter-departmentally, which means coordination, which means senior management involvement.

Re: VW slumps to first quarterly loss in at least 15 years

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VW cars exceed legal emissions 40 times. There is a reason for no preventing to use this cars?

They can be re-programmed to stay within emissions. The user just might feel the driving experience worsens as a result.

Some of them will need new hardware to reduce NOx emissions in real-world driving conditions.

Re: VW slumps to first quarterly loss in at least 15 years

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VW cars exceed legal emissions 40 times. There is a reason for no preventing to use this cars?

I don't think the government can say "you were lied to about your car, stop using it" also VW can't force people to get the recall, why would you want to get a recall that worsens the performance of you car.

Re: VW slumps to first quarterly loss in at least 15 years

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post #6

VW cars exceed legal emissions 40 times. There is a reason for no preventing to use this cars?

I don't think the government can say "you were lied to about your car, stop using it" also VW can't force people to get the recall, why would you want to get a recall that worsens the performance of you car.

Couldn't they force the hardware/software modifications when people go in for yearly inspections?

Re: VW slumps to first quarterly loss in at least 15 years

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I don't buy the implication that this didn't go up extremely high in VW. I'm sure they'll find some low level drone(s) to take the fall like normal, but generally speaking if they were engineering and building cars which they KNEW couldn't pass emmissions it had to have been a concerted effort to cheat the system inter-departmentally, which means coordination, which means senior management involvement.

The CEO has already been fired, but for something this big it won't just be the low-level types that get fired.
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