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Car makers are usually caught trying to deny a flaw exists in their models. Not so with Volkswagen though, they having put software in place to cut pollution down just for when a car's being tested...
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/business/volkswagen-is-ordered-to-recall-nearly-500000-vehicles-over-emissions-software.html?_r=0
"During normal driving situations, the controls are turned off, allowing the cars to spew as much as 40 times as much pollution as allowed under the Clean Air Act, the E.P.A. said."
Hopefully it won't matter what the Environmental Protection Agency does, with consumers showing the company the kind of punishment this kind of shit really deserves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/business/volkswagen-is-ordered-to-recall-nearly-500000-vehicles-over-emissions-software.html?_r=0
"During normal driving situations, the controls are turned off, allowing the cars to spew as much as 40 times as much pollution as allowed under the Clean Air Act, the E.P.A. said."
Hopefully it won't matter what the Environmental Protection Agency does, with consumers showing the company the kind of punishment this kind of shit really deserves.
