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Emissions Cheating, Air Pollution, and Health with Hannes Schwandt

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How Cheating Cars Polluted the Air

Soao: The way these companies cheated their cars could detect when they were undergoing an emissions test, and then in a different way during the test. So that regulators thought they were clean ecause they passed all the tests. And then when you were out driving on the road, they would release a much more a particulate matter into the air than they would during the tests. But compared to normal desel car, those cheating cars polluted up to forty times the amount ofof anoaxis,. which precurse of or particular matter.

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