Re:What really happened at Volkswagen
by mnm1 on Sunday June 04, 2017 @01:00PM
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Like VW is the only company that cheated on emissions? Fiat Chrysler, Daimler, GM, Mitsubishi, Renault, and the list keeps growing. The interesting story is why the whole industry is allowed to get away with cheating. And it's got nothing to do with Hitler.
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In fairness, the violations in the other cases I've seen (and I admit I haven't paid all that close attention) seem to be much more marginal.
There was a program on national French TV almost a full year before VW case blew up, they tested PSA, Renault and Fiat cars and _every single one_ was several times above the norm.
also http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/24/reuters-america-update-1-fren...
Re:What really happened at Volkswagen
by Judgmentality on Sunday June 04, 2017 @01:11PM
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> And it's got nothing to do with Hitler.
What?
TFA starts by mentioning VW's origins in Hitler's creation of a group to create a "people's car", and cites a significant part of that as being an organization created and sheltered from outside influence, which apparently set up the conditions for a very autocratic CEO to create the internal culture that led to the cheating/fraud several decades later. It's a really weird, weak connection.