If dieselgate were a Hollywood movie, there would be scenes of police raiding the corporate headquarters and hauling off evidence. Managers and CEO’s would be brought in for questioning. Real life isn’t anything like that — the corporation gets to investigate itself:
While the internal audits will be finished by the end of this month, the law firm Jones Day is doing its own independent investigation going through emails and 102 TB of data partly gained from the laptops, mobile phones, sim cards and flash drives of 400 VW employees who may or may not be involved. So far, they’ve completed 87 interviews and 9 managers got suspended, but it’ll be a while until VW’s 450 investigators build the case and find out exactly who were responsible at each level of the decision making process.
Shouldn’t those laptops and flash drives be in the hands of prosecutors?
And so far, the company is sticking to its story that this was a just very tiny group of engineers that went rogue. Interesting how they can already come to that conclusion when the “investigation” has barely started…
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I really don’t see the problem. They passed the test as written. That the writing was stupid is not VW’s fault. That’s what happens when lawyers try to be engineers or scientists. BTW, pretty much every imported Diesel powered vehicle is like that: designed to perform at a certain spec.under certain conditions, with a subroutine for the test conditions.