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VW CEO is out
- georgeott 11y agoThis entire episode is amazing. How did they think they wouldn't get caught?!
- pjc50 11y agoThey're a big business. The trick is hidden in software and controls emissions which require special equipment to detect. Of course they didn't expect to get caught, and if they did get caught they didn't expect to get punished. After all, if Lenovo can keep shipping malware in their laptops, why can't VW ship "malware" in their engine management?
- degenerate 11y agoThe best move VW can make now is to announce that they will be moving to 100% electric vehicles* over the next decade, as BMW has announced: http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bmw-all-models-electric-within-decade-20150629-00597 http://www.nasdaq.com/article/bmw-all-models-electric-within... *edit: see below comment
- petewailes 11y agoExpanding on that a little - it's not entirely accurate. BMW are shifting to electric powertrains, but not entirely electric; they're building hybrids too. Since they've not yet said exactly what the split of those will be, it's nothing to get particularly excited over yet. The i8 isn't exactly a shining example of MPG friendliness in real world conditions (high 20's to mid 30's), and even the best hybrids still have a long way to go until they can be considered clean in terms of emissions in build and lifetime operation.
- iamthepieman 11y agoThis is all I could think of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
- boulos 11y agoAmazingly, it was just a few months ago that VW's board sided with Winterkorn instead of Piech (http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/25/news/volkswagen-chairman-resign-ferdinand-piech/ http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/25/news/volkswagen-chairman-res...).
- greenyoda 11y agoEarlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10265534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10265534
- m2n6b4 11y agoThe company is a big scam. People just got fooled by the 'german engineering'. Common!