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Half a Million VW Vehicles Dumped in Graveyards

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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Original Submission

• Re:Quit allowing governments to "engineer" cars. (Score: 2) by dry on Sunday December 09 2018, @08:04PM

  by dry (223) on Sunday December 09 2018, @08:04PM (#772073) Journal

  consider the wisdom of daytime running lights which all too often result in drivers not switching on headlights until long after dark, so they are driving without tail lights.

  This works fine on my old truck where the dash lights are wired to the parking/headlights. As soon as it is dark enough, namely a cloudy day, to not see my speedometer, I turn on the parking lights or headlights. Car manufacturers are at fault by now turning on the dash (or screen) lights when the car is started. This would be a problem without daytime running lights, at that when I had vehicles old enough to not have running lights, I still often forgot to turn on the headlights till quite dark, dangerous when I had a grey vehicle.
  So combination of government and industry bad engineering.

  Consider the idiocy of RED turn signals, which are legal but which are far less likely to be visually noticed by drivers.

  So more government regulation required? I'd guess the red turn lights were meant to be a grandfathered thing but for some stupid reason the car manufacturers kept producing them.
  Don't have enough experience with ABS to comment.

  While you have a point about government being too aggressive pushing some of this stuff, the alternative is manufacturers ignoring stuff until too late. Just have to look at the American auto market in the '70's, though in an ideal free market world, they would have all died. Instead there has been how much money pumped into the industry to protect jobs.

   

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