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user-inactivated  ·  3360 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Volkswagen faces half million recalls, $18b in fines for cheating on diesel emissions tests

    After EPA and CARB announced they would not certify 2016 model year diesel vehicles, VW admitted “it had designed and installed a defeat device in these vehicles in the form of a sophisticated software algorithm that detected when a vehicle was undergoing emissions testing.”

WOW. Either Volkswagen Group is full of people with huge balls or they're full of people with very tiny brains. How the hell someone ok'd this design and let it go to production is beyond me.