CASE STUDY 4.3 Volkswagen and Its Project to Cheat Emissions Tests
”Volkswagen obfuscated, they denied, and they ultimately lied.”
These were the words of U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch, as she set out how the German carmaker would be punished for attempting to willfully mislead U.S. authorities over the emissions produced by its diesel cars. This indictment by the Attorney General capped a long investigation into Volkswagen’s (VW) decision to find a way around U.S. emissions testing, opting, instead of redesigning its engines to run more efficiently, to “cook the books” by deliberately creating a system to cheat emissions testing. The story of the scandal represents a serious ethical violation that ran right through the organization, from ...
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