VW Isnt Even the Worst Polluter: Tests Are Made to Be Fooled - Daily Beast

Volkswagen’s admission that it cheated on U.S. emissions testing has become the latest bombshell scandal to rock the auto industry, wiping $20 billion from VW’s market capitalization and costing CEO Martin Winterkorn his job.

VW’s blatant law breaking should absolutely be punished, but the more you understand how weak emissions-testing regimes are—and the ruthlessness with which entire industry games them—the more clear it becomes that the line between VW’s “cheating” and the industry’s standard operating procedures is blurry.

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