Volkswagen, one of the world’s top car manufactures, recently made a
mistake that may cost them the company. Recently discovered by the United
States, Volkswagen’s new diesel engine was cheating on the emissions tests. Since
all of this has been discovered, the CEO of Volkswagen has stepped down, as well
as some other high officials. The diesel engine in question was first installed in
2008. After the company ran their own tests, they realized that it would not meet
the pollution standards in the United States as well as many other countries. That
was when Volkswagen decided it would be cheaper to create a cheating system for
the test and take the risk of being caught rather than throw out years of research
and work that was put into this new engine.
Many bad choices were made in order to make this scheme happen, but the
questionable ethics from Volkswagen are some of the worst. Not only did the ex
CEO, Martin Winterkorn, allegedly know about this, but allowed it to happen. He
chose to now just lie about the emissions, but to front a plan to detect when the car
was being randomly tested and cheat the results. Not only was this a lie, but it was
a lie that made consumers lose faith in a once respectable and affordable foreign