Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoGerman court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandalwww.occrp.orgexternal-linkmessage-square63fedilinkarrow-up11.21Karrow-down16
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minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-22 months agoIt wasn’t just VW. It was like a dozen of the major brands all doing it in some way or another. E.g BMW was involved as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal
minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYou are genuinely the first other person I’ve ever seen online who seems aware that this was an industry-wide thing, not a VW thing.
minus-squareNotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 months agoYou barely saw it in the news compared to VW as well. Even if an article would bring it up, it’d usually be headlines with VW in some way or another. It’s a shame so many of our choices for cars out there are run by bad people at the top 😞
It wasn’t just VW. It was like a dozen of the major brands all doing it in some way or another.
E.g BMW was involved as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal
You are genuinely the first other person I’ve ever seen online who seems aware that this was an industry-wide thing, not a VW thing.
You barely saw it in the news compared to VW as well. Even if an article would bring it up, it’d usually be headlines with VW in some way or another.
It’s a shame so many of our choices for cars out there are run by bad people at the top 😞