Volkswagen: The Software That Lied to Regulators

Eleven million vehicles. Software that detected 

when an emissions test was running and switched 

into compliance mode — then switched back the 

moment the test ended, pumping out up to forty 

times the legal limit of nitrogen oxide. The 

defeat device was not a rogue piece of code. 

It was a corporate decision.

This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes 

inside the Volkswagen emissions scandal — how one 

of the world's largest automakers engineered a 

deliberate deception of regulators across multiple 

countries, what thirty billion dollars in fines 

and settlements looks like, and what the gap 

between the test and the real world costs the 

people breathing the air.

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