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VW USA Emissions

John T Carroll · 2015-09-19 19:57:03

VW US have been ordered to recall 500,000 cars because of failure to meet emission standards. "The cars employed a sophisticated software algorithm to detect when the car was undergoing official emissions testing and turn on full emissions controls only on that time." They must be pretty dim to think that they could get…

19-09-2015 7:57pm

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John T Carroll

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VW US have been ordered to recall 500,000 cars because of failure to meet emission standards.

"The cars employed a sophisticated software algorithm to detect when the car was undergoing official emissions testing and turn on full emissions controls only on that time."

They must be pretty dim to think that they could get away with that, in the USA of all places.

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It is a rather striking thing, actually, given the damage to their reputation when the truth came out. You would imagine the authorities wouldn't cut them much slack from here on.

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Already discussed here: http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057495903

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