NPR: 11 million cars were programmed to cheat on emissions tests.
NPR: 11 million cars were programmed to cheat on emissions tests.
Providing an update to a scandal that began Friday, when the EPA said it found wide variations in emissions from VW cars that use a “defeat device” to fool emissions tests, the German company said that it’s “working at full speed” to investigate the problematic software.
On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency said it was ordering VW to issue a recall for around 482,000 Volkswagen and Audi cars that have 4-cylinder turbo diesel engines. The cars are outfitted with software that detects when an official emissions test is under way — and when the cars aren’t being tested, they “emit up to 40 times more pollution” than allowed under U.S. standards, according to the EPA and the California Air Resources Board.
