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After VW was outed for falsifying environmental data in its cars hundreds of thousand of VW vehicles were taken off the road now sitting in storage sites. Hundreds of thousands of cars now lie in lots in the Mojave Desert, a shuttered suburban Detroit football stadium, and a former Minnesota paper mill in America alone. These vehicles are now in the open slowly breaking down with pollutants entering the environment. Is the the modern cost of corporate greed? What can we do to ensure this never happens again?
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Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards
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Could I have a drug overdose?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @04:34PM (6 children)
this is what i thought of when i read this summary. why are these cars abandoned? i have no idea but i'm guessing it has to do with government and their partners in organized crime the insurance companies. i doubt eco conscience drivers just decided to dump their cars and buy more supposedly, eco friendly alternatives. corporate greed? give me a break.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @08:58PM (4 children)
And
Isn't this the fate of all cars?
(Score: 2) by Hyper on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:12AM
They could at least recycle the tires.
The metal is worth recycling.
Batteries.
How much can a car be broken down by a recycling plant?
Or was it deemed too expensive to do so?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by sjames on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:10AM
Sure, but at least they do something useful first.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @05:00AM
Don't some countries factor in the recycling costs of cars right up front in the purchase cost? Total cradle to grave sort of thing? I think the cars *must* be recycled.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @08:08PM
uhh, everyone knows that cars from companies that do what the government says turn into rainbows!
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Sunday December 09 2018, @07:20AM
Part of the punishment for getting busted for cheating on the emissions testing for their diesel vehicles, Volkswagon was forced to offer a buyback the owners of any of the affected vehicles. The offers were fairly generous, and given that recent Volkswagons have rather dubious build quality anyway and repairs are expensive, many owners took Volkswagon up on their offer. So now Volkswagon is stuck with a bunch of vehicles that would need an expensive retrofit with the emissions equipment they should have had in the first place. Otherwise, they can't be resold, and since few would pay much for the cars even if they were retrofitted, instead they sit.
I'm actually surprised that Volkswagon doesn't just ship them off to some other part of the world that doesn't care so much about emissions and sell them for what they can get for them, but perhaps the feds won't allow them to be exported. Since it doesn't seem that Volkswagon cares much about keeping the cars in resalable condition, I'm guessing they'll eventually all be crushed.