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Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards

posted by martyb on Saturday December 08 2018, @04:26PM   Printer-friendly
from the What-harm-could-a-lie-do dept.

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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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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @06:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 08 2018, @06:54PM (#771624)

    I'm sure some idiots will try to claim that the government should be involved in car design. These idiots are wrong, full stop.

    Without government involvement, we would likely still not have seat belts.

    And we would still be driving Ford Pintos, or at least rear-ending them just to watch them burn, and cutting off Chevy Corvairs, just to watch them flip over for no reason. You know, if it wasn't for Volvo and the three-point restraint system, . . .