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That literally happened with the VW turbodiesels.

• jhenkens 5y ago
  First thing I thought of. I believe the trade off was getting a warranty extension on the engine/emmissions system.
  • gambiting 5y ago
    In some US states VW was forced to buy the vehicles back from owners if they wanted to sell them. I know most people jumped on the offer as VW had to pay a certain pre-agreed price and it was higher than market value.
    • pests 5y ago
      They could either fix it (adding a diesel exhaust filter, which adds a consumable filter fluid to the maintenance schedule) or buy it back at the price the vehicle was valued at before the scandal broke. Plus $5,000 in restitution regardless of option taken.
• donalhunt 5y ago
  * in some markets. :(
• schmichael 5y ago
  And the repercussions were substantial: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal (I'm not arguing equivalence between these two "post-consumer downgrades" -- just pointing out there's not only prior art for it occurring, but also prior art for repercussions/compensation.)
• monocasa 5y ago
  And they were subject to a $15B class action settlement because of it in the US alone. https://www.classaction.com/volkswagen/settlement/ https://www.classaction.com/volkswagen/settlement/
• collsni 5y ago
  It absolutely did. I owned a VW for 3 years and it was bought back from me for 3k more than I originally paid for it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal
• dev_tty01 5y ago
  Big difference though. VW created the issue and then ran a program to develop and implement a way to hide the problem. Malicious intent. I don't think we can say the same for Intel with a security bug that is uncovered after the sale. Now, if someone could show Intel knew about Spectre or similar bugs and hid them, then you are off to the races.