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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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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Reziac on Sunday December 09 2018, @02:24AM (5 children)
...than just slapping accurate MPG numbers on the window sticker and selling them, to be used rather than wasted?? it's not like they're bad polluters compared to other vehicles; it's just that they couldn't make the absurd standards imposed. And what about the environmental cost of everything that went into them? Now that's all wasted. Better to put them into service than let them rot.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 09 2018, @11:56AM (1 child)
oh stop being so sensible
next thing you'll need is for transparency in government
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday December 10 2018, @12:24AM
I know, right? Dang gov't schemes anyway....
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday December 10 2018, @02:20AM (2 children)
Even better, they CAN meet the not at all absurd environmental standards with a simple re-flash of the ECU. How about do that.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Monday December 10 2018, @03:55AM (1 child)
If it's that simple, why don't they??
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Monday December 10 2018, @05:56AM
Possibly spite in combination with some marketing wonk who thinks the brand still has some reputation to lose due to lower performance.
But to turn it around, if it isn't that easy, how did the ECU adjust to make it pass an emissions test?
And how did they manage to reprogram a few cars for people who brought them in for service?