Thursday, September 24, 2015

Find an article that discusses Volkswagen the scandal and summarize. Include the link.

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  2. Volkswagen is in big trouble. Many Volkeswagen car models are producing up to 40 times the legal limit of emissions. A special software was installed on these cars to help them pass tests, but as soon as the cars left the factory, the software ceased working, and the cars began emitting. The chief executive of Volkswagen has retired, and the company may not make it much farther past this point. This will not only change the future of Volkswagen, but the future of all automobile manufacturers.

    Here's your link -
    http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21666226-volkswagens-falsification-pollution-tests-opens-door-very-different-car

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  3. The CEO of the Volkswagen company is resigning, because of the company's scandal. Basically the company put gadgets on cars to make it seem like there was less fuel polluting the air than what actually was going into the air. It is all in diesel vehicles. http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/23/news/companies/volkswagen-emissions-crisis/

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  4. Daniel Carder lead a west virginia tech research team that found that volkswagon was cheating US emition test by instaling a computer chip that when being tested enabled the engine to give of low emitions but when it was not being tested and on the highway it would pu out ten to twenty times the legal emition standard
    http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/vw-scandal-engineers-testing-opened-can-worms-automaker-n432896

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  5. The Volkswagen company is resigning because of a scandal from 2011. It has been said that 11 million diesel vehicles are involved. The company lied about their emission tests. They had installed a tool to make it seem like there was less pollution in the air than what there really was. The CEO of the company has resigned and they are looking to interview a new CEO Friday, the company is having a hard time staying stable.

    http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/23/news/companies/volkswagen-emissions-crisis/

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  6. The tests from 2011 are finally coming out, and people are figuring out that they are false. The Volkswagen company lied about there emissions on there cars. The cars are not as environmentally friendly as they say. Does this not only effect the pollution of the cars but also effects the cars efficiency and power.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34373637
    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34373637

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  7. An engineer that works under Volkswagen warned the company of cheating over a year ago, even as early as 2011. Last week VW apologized for cheating on emission test in over 11 million diesel cars since 2008. The company has already set aside $7.4 billion dollars, but will face up to $18 billion dollars in fines.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34373637

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  8. 3.3 million cars were fitted with software that allowed parent company Volkswagen to cheat US emissions tests. 2.1 million Audis were affected. Skoda said 1.2 million of its cars were involved. http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34377443

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  9. The german car giant is in big trouble. There were cheating emissions tests. They even admitted doing it. They put a device in the diesel engine that could detect when the cars were being tested. It is supposed to give good exhaust off but the exhaust is bad and polluting the air. They will be fined.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

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  10. What happened was that the car company Volkswagen the faked emissions tests. To make thee cars look better millions of car have these fakes in them. 11 million cars world wide.

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  11. http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/28/news/companies/volkswagen-winterkorn-criminal-investigation/index.html

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  12. Volkswagen admitted to cheating to the emissions test in the U.S. According to the EPA some cars have a devices in diesel engines to change the results of the test.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

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  13. German automaker is likely to face legal problems including, potential crime charges, says legal experts. This isn't the first time Volkswagen has been accused of cheating emission tests. In July of 1973, they had installed devices that turned off emission controls.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal_government/volkswagen-faces-major-legal-trouble-in-emissions-scandal/2015/09/28/43710510-65b7-11e5-bdb6-6861f4521205_story.html

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  14. According to the EPA Volkswagen has been pushing the U.S to buy there diesel dupe.
    The cars that were being sold to the U.S had a devices in there diesel engines that could tell the person who was testing the EPA that the car was good for the world.









    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

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  15. VW admitted to 11 million cars worldwide are fitted with this so called "Default Device."
    While being tested the engines were put in some sort of safe mode which ran below normal power and performance but once they were put onto the road the engines switched from this safe mode.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

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  16. Martin Winterkorn, former CEO of Volkswagen, is under investigation. In the beginning of the year, VW took on Toyota as the biggest car maker by sales. They have been left reeling after admitting to cheating U.S. vehicles emission tests of its diesel-powered vehicles. They admitted over 11 million cars have been affected.

    http://www.cnbc.com/2015/09/28/vws-audi-division-says-21m-cars-affected-in-emissions-scandal.html

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  17. Volkswagon is the world leading automaker. The auto maker has been found of cheating on around 500,000 deisel cars emisions tests. They installed software in the computers that could recognize when the vehile was being tested for emisions. When not being tested the cars would let out as much as 40 percent more nitrogen oxides.

    http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/28/news/companies/volkswagen-scandal-two-minutes/index.html

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  18. A Volkswagen engineer warned the company of cheating as early as 2011. The tests from 2011 are finally coming out, and people are starting to figure out that they are false. Volkswagen has lied about there emissions on their cars. Last week VW apologized for cheating on emission test in over eleven million diesel cars since 2008. The company has already set aside four point seven billion dollars, but can face up to eighteen billion dollar fines.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34373637

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  20. About 482,000 cars in the U.S only, are fitted with the "defeat device." There are over 11 million other Volkswagen vehicles have been fitted with the device. The engines emit up to 40 times more pollutants than what is allowed in the U.S. The cars were put in a test mode in laboratories that showed good performance and showed that they ran below normal performance power. After the vehicles are driven on the road the device takes them out of "test mode."

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

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  21. Volkswagen is said to have cheated on pollution tests on around 500,000 diesel engine vehicles. They installed a software that made them appear better during the tests, but on the road they let out 40 times more nitrogen oxides than are allowed. This was found out last year, but only recently did they admit to doing anything wrong. The CEO of Volkswagen, Martin Winterkorn, stepped down last week and is being investigated, although he says he didn't know anything about it.

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    1. http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/09/28/444176148/german-prosecutors-investigating-former-volkswagen-ceo

      http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/28/news/companies/volkswagen-scandal-two-minutes/

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  22. Volkswagen announced plans on Tuesday to refit up to 11 million vehicles and overhaul its namesake brand to try to move on from the scandal over its cheating on diesel emissions tests.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/29/us-volkswagen-emissions-plan-idUSKCN0RT0OL20150929

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  23. So Volkswagen is in some deep stuff. So it has been hinted at for a while that they lie about there emissions. It turned out it was true some places have said it to be up to 40 times the legal limit. it has effected up to 1.8 million cars.

    http://www.marketwatch.com/story/volkswagen-faces-multibillion-dollar-tide-of-lawsuits-over-emissions-scandal-2015-09-29

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  24. It's been dubbed the diesel dupeThe German car giant has admitted cheating emissions tests in the US. According to the Environmental Protection Agency some cars being sold in America had devices in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested, changing the performance accordingly to improve results.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

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  25. Volkswagen is preparing plans to fix up to 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide to ensure they comply with pollution limits. The company said Tuesday that it would tell customers soon whether their cars needed a refit, but it stopped short of announcing a recall and gave few details. The scandal has rocked one of Germany's biggest companies, wiping out more than a third off its market value. Regulators could impose fines totaling billions of dollars. Customers, dealers and investors are lining up to sue the company.

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  26. 11 millions cars worldwide are fitted with the so-called "defeat device". Some cars being sold in America had devices in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested, and that would change the performance to improve results. 482,000 of the 11 million were sold in the US.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

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  27. About 500,000, Volkswagen cars, 400 Audis, 75,000 Seats, 130,000 Skoda, 80,000 Volkswagen commercial vehicles. which is about 1.2 million cars affected in the scandal. Volkswagen sales have dramatically decreased in sales by about 40% Since this scandel happened on September 18th.
    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34399503

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  28. In 2011 a VW engineer warned the company of cheating already. Now the tests from 2011 are finally coming out, and people are starting to figure out that they are false. Volkswagen has lied about there emissions on their cars. They are now apologizing for cheating on emission test in over eleven million diesel cars since 2008. The company has already set aside four point seven billion dollars, but can face up to eighteen billion dollar fines.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34373637

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  29. http://www.vox.com/2015/9/21/9365667/volkswagen-clean-diesel-recall-passenger-cars

    They cheated and said there cars were clean and gave off less pollution, which Europe couldn’t detect. Volkswagen decide to change the emission setting in the cars which is illegal and they got caught on it.

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  30. Volkswagen is trying to correct their diesel emission scandal. Germany has about 2.8 million of the affected vehicles, the U.K. has about 1.2 million and France has nearly one million. German prosecutors are investigating former CEO Martin Winterkorn for possible fraud related to selling cars with falsified emissions data. Winterkorn has denied any wrongdoing but took responsibility for the scandal when he resigned last week.

    http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/28/news/companies/volkswagen-scandal-two-minutes/

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  31. Volkswagen is trying to correct their diesel emission scandal. Germany has about 2.8 million of the affected vehicles, the U.K. has about 1.2 million and France has nearly one million. German prosecutors are investigating former CEO Martin Winterkorn for possible fraud related to selling cars with falsified emissions data. Winterkorn has denied any wrongdoing but took responsibility for the scandal when he resigned last week.

    http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/28/news/companies/volkswagen-scandal-two-minutes/

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  32. Volkswagen is trying to fix the diesel emission in the cars. They are telling people that they fixed there cars and people can buy them know. They said that they are sorry for what they did to the first cars. More than 500,000 cars have been effected by this scandal.
    http://news.yahoo.com/vw-board-considering-steps-prop-credit-rating-sources-070307144--sector.html

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  33. Volkswagen seeks to boost finances to meet emission scandal costs. Volkswagen has said it will refit up to 11 million diesel vehicles containing software capable of cheating emission tests. It also faces potential fines from regulators and prosecutors, lawsuits from consumers and investors, and a possible hit to sales and prices from the damage to its reputation.The sources said the board was worried that, without boosting its finances, its credit ratings might be downgraded, leading to higher borrowing costs.

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/01/us-volkswagen-emissions-idUSKCN0RU15H20151001

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  34. The Volkswagen scandal is hurting their consumers. The resale values have dropped and the owners are not getting their money back for what they paid. A doctor bought a Volkswagen is outraged because he thought he was doing good for the environment.

    http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/28/news/volkswagen-emissions-scandal-customers/

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  35. The German car company has admitted cheating on emissions tests in the US. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), some cars being sold in America had devices in diesel engines that could detect when they were being tested, changing the performance to improve results. The engines emitted nitrogen oxide that was up to 40 times above what is allowed in the US.

    http://www.bbc.com/news/business-34324772

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  36. The German based car company has admitted to cheating on the emission tests in the U.S. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says some cars being sold in America had devises in the diesel engines that would detect when they were being tested, changing the performance to improve results. The EPA's findings cover 482,000 cars in the US alone. That's including the VW-manufactured Audi A3, and the VW brands Jetta, Beetle, Golf, and Passat. There are over 11 million cars that were affected by the "defect device."

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  37. Volkswagen lost two of their "Green Car of the Year" awards because of this scandal.




    http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/01/news/companies/volkswagen-green-car-of-year-awards-rescinded/index.html

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  38. The Volkswagen has been lying to there customers as well as the everyone who has to deal with the pollution of these cars. This lie has been going on for the last 6 years. The pollution of these cars are over 40X the legal limit. The CEO ( Martin Winkerkorn) has resigned once this information or lie was uncovered. The fine for this "crime" in and return they have a huge fine.

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  39. http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/28/opinions/schneier-vw-cheating-software/

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