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CLASSIC: The Great Volkswagen Cover-up, with Scott Benjamin

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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The Purpose of a Destroy Device

In 2007, Volkswagen officially suspended the sales of the current diesel lines and they were waiting for new technology standards to come through. This is also around the time that the European Union banned something that was pretty common in this diesel testing thing. The defeat device really are there to save the car, save the engine really. That's the primary purpose of them. And what we're talking about is a software situation. It's not a mechanical thing, it's an electronic thing.

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