Friday, September 25, 2015

Volkswagen Cheats the Emissions Test and Gets Caught Big Time

The Volkswagen scandal has been all over the news the past several days (TIME, CNN, Economist). In summary, Volkswagen committed a massive fraud by installing a chip in at least 11 million of their diesel cars that slowed down emissions only when the car was plugged in to the emissions machine. Then as soon as the test was finished and the car was unplugged, the car emitted anywhere from 10 to 40 times the amount of nitrogen oxides than what the test results showed. The amounts emitted normally by the car far exceed environmental regulations in the United States. (For more information on the story, see the video below.)