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

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: 2) by Whoever on Saturday December 08 2018, @10:57PM (2 children)

    by Whoever (4524) on Saturday December 08 2018, @10:57PM (#771692) Journal

    European ones are and always have been orange.

    Not true. In the UK, they were required to be amber [orange] for cars registered after 1958. Not before.

    https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2013/may/17/new-rules-car-indicators-1956 [theguardian.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:26AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:26AM (#771756)

    So what color were they then before?

    • (Score: 3, Informative) by Whoever on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:08AM

      by Whoever (4524) on Sunday December 09 2018, @04:08AM (#771794) Journal

      So what color were they then before?

      Some were red. Some did not flash. Some were little "flags" that were raised on the "B" pillar.