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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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Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by sjames on Sunday December 09 2018, @12:41AM
Greed lead to this situation, of course. But now we have those half million cars that can be made street legal just by re-flashing their ECU. They wouldn't have the original performance, but there are also thousands of lower income people who would find them a distinct step up from their old beater or the bus. Instead of re-flashing them and selling them off cheap, they're letting them rot in the desert out of spite.