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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
by mnm1 9y ago
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.
- Judgmentality 9y ago> And it's got nothing to do with Hitler. What?
- fatbird 9y agoTFA 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.
- macintux 9y agoIn 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.
- rasz 9y agoThere 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-french-prosecutors-open-peugeot-diesel-cheating-probe.html http://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/24/reuters-america-update-1-fren...