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Volkswagen was caught cheating on its emission data and the CEO got fired, then prosecuted. Why shouldn't that be the case here?
by pu_pe 1y ago
Volkswagen was caught cheating on its emission data and the CEO got fired, then prosecuted. Why shouldn't that be the case here?
- JumpCrisscross 1y agoYou’d need a coalition of Democratic attorneys general to bring a case in the mould of Big Tobacco.
- MangoToupe 1y agoWe'd need a third party if you'd actually want to fight american corporations. Unless you intended "small d" democratic
- dagmx 1y agoGood news, the CEO of this American corporation is making a third party… (the monkey paw curls)
- MangoToupe 1y agoA third party... that sounds exactly like the other two. Where is the anti-capitalism party? The anti-war party? The anti-corruption party? Aren't political parties supposed to represent DIFFERENT interests? Instead we're forced to choose between a party hates immigrants and a party that hates immigrants slightly more And like you can criticize republicans, but they actually invested in intel. Wrong company, but a step in the right direction.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> anti-capitalism party? The anti-war party? The anti-corruption party? The first two aren’t as popular as you think. The last is a constant source of political capital.
- croes 1y agoUsually it has to be a non US company
- rsynnott 1y agoThe really weird thing about the diesel emissions scandal was that someone actually got in trouble for it. It is _rare_ for companies to be punished, particularly criminally, for that sort of thing.
- bobmcnamara 1y agoUsually they'd get a DPA
- fransje26 1y agoWell, it wasn't a US company so..
- csours 1y agoFiring the CEO is nominally up to the board of directors. In Tesla's case, the board knows that the valuation of the company is wildly irrational, and they feel that the valuation is tied to the CEO.
- BurningFrog 1y agoBecause it's a completely different situation. The only commonality is that both involve a car company. Maybe the Tesla CEO should get fired and prosecuted, but not because the VW case sets some kind of precedent.
- buyucu 1y agoVolkswagen is an European company. You simply can't do that to American companies.
- gitaarik 1y ago> U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom, who presided over the case, said in an order that she did not find “sufficient evidence” that Tesla’s failure to initially produce the data was intentional. She ruled, however, that Tesla was required to reimburse the plaintiffs for all the costs related to retrieving the data themselves.
- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoSeems like that's the wrong way round, that the court has to find sufficient evidence. I'd prefer it if Tesla had to provide sufficient evidence that their processes were followed correctly and that there was no intention to hide crash data.