#DIESELGATE

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Former Volkswagen CEO stands trial for 'Dieselgate' role

Former Volkswagen CEO stands trial for 'Dieselgate' role #dieselgate #fraudtrial #MartinWinterkorn #Volkswagen

[teknolojihaber]

Mercedes emisyon skandalı davasını kaybetti

Bir Alman mahkemesi, otomobil devi Mercedes-Benz'in bazı dizel otomobillere bilerek  hileli emisyon cihazları yerleştirdiğine karar verdi. Otomobil üreticisi mahkemenin kararını reddetti ve kararı Almanya yüksek mahkemesine götürme planlarını duyurdu. Emisyon seviyelerinin sahte olduğu iddialarını içeren "dieselgate" skandalı, ilk olarak 2015 yılında Volkswagen'i sarstı ve ardından diğer otomobil üreticilerine de sıçradı.  Stuttgart mahkemesi kararında, Mercedes çalışanlarının bazı modellere kasıtlı olarak  emisyonları yetkisiz değiştiren cihazlar yerleştirdiği, ancak diğerleriyle ilgili benzer iddiaları reddettiği belirtildi.  Alman Tüketiciler Federasyonu VZBV mahkemenin kararını memnuniyetle karşılayarak "önemli tazminat talepleri için bir yol çizildiğini" belirtti. Artık bireysel araç sahipleri tazminat başvurusunda bulunabilecek. Mercedes'in sonuçta ne kadar ödemek zorunda kalacağı ya da kaç araç sahibinin tazminat isteyebileceği henüz belli değil. Alman tüketici avukatı Klaus Goldenstein, kararın aynı zamanda modeli ne olursa olsun tazminat talebinde bulunabilecek yüz binlerce Mercedes sahibine de olumlu bir sinyal gönderdiğini söyledi. Read the full article

[otaviogilbert]

The Most Expensive Lie In Automobile Industry: $25 Billion Mistake of Volkswagen | Business Decipher

Once hailed as the global leader in diesel vehicles, Volkswagen's reputation took a critical hit & you’ll be shocked to know the reason. What appeared to be groundbreaking achievements & leaps of innovation by Volkswagen were later exposed as fabrications of lies pasted upon a massive scandal. But the story of how a company once synonymous with innovation and trust regained its reputation after a scandal that shook the automotive Industry & the entire world. Today, we dive into the story of Volkswagen's "Dieselgate" and explore the twists and turns of a deception that cost billions.

[angelamerkelultras]

Power to the Bauer

[rallytimeofficial]

Dieselgate, Altroconsumo annuncia il ricorso in Cassazione nella class action contro Volkswagen

🔴 🔴Dieselgate, Altroconsumo annuncia il ricorso in Cassazione nella class action contro Volkswagen

 La Corte d’Appello di Venezia ha recentemente confermato che, con l’installazione del software per manipolare le emissioni dei motori diesel e superare le prove di omologazione, Volkswagen (VW) ha violato i regolamenti europei, ha commesso una pratica commerciale scorretta e una vera e propria frode ai danni dei consumatori. La sentenza ha anche confermato la validità delle oltre 63mila adesioni…

[phonemantra-blog]

The price has not yet been announced Volkswagen has introduced the Volkswagen ID. 4 2024, which received new electric motors. In addition, both configurations, including the rear-wheel drive single-motor version and the all-wheel drive dual-motor version, will receive significant power increases for the new model year. This only applies to models equipped with the larger 77.0 kWh battery, not ID models. 4 with a base battery with a capacity of 58.0 kWh. The developers have implemented changes to the interior and new wheels, as well as several new features for certain trim levels. [caption id="attachment_84920" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Volkswagen[/caption] Volkswagen ID introduced. 4 2024 - more powerful Rear-wheel drive engine ID. 4 with a power of 77.0 kWh produces 282 hp, while the old model was characterized by 201 hp. Meanwhile, the power of the dual-motor AWD ID. 4 increases from 295 to 330 hp. The EPA has released the estimated range of the VW ID. 4 for 2024, which is slightly larger than the previous year's model. ID. 4 will travel up to 468 km without recharging. This is 25 km more than its predecessor. The car gets a larger, 12.9-inch infotainment screen on higher trim levels that offers an improved menu structure and a new climate control system. The design of the steering wheel and gear lever has also been revised. Cooled front seats are now standard, and the S Plus trim gets a Harman/Kardon audio system. 20-inch wheels replace 19-inch ones, and the S Plus now has 21-inch wheels. [caption id="attachment_84921" align="aligncenter" width="780"] Volkswagen[/caption] ID. The 2024 4 will begin arriving in dealerships early next year. Prices have not yet been published.

[emvidal]

California became the first state in the United States to approve regulation of ending diesel truck sales by 2036.

[aktionfsa-blog-blog]

Dieselgate war kein "Entwicklungsfehler"

Whistleblower stärken Kläger gegen Autokonzerne

Und es gibt dafür auch Belege, wie es weiter heißt: Entsprechendes Beweismaterial – unter anderem interne Protokolle und Präsentationen – haben wir von einem Insider zugespielt bekommen und in dieser Woche veröffentlicht. Demnach gaben Audi, VW, Daimler und BMW bereits 2006 Abschalteinrichtungen in Auftrag, also noch früher als bislang bekannt. Und vor allem: Sie taten das in vollem Bewusstsein über die rechtlichen Probleme, denn darüber wurden sie wiederholt und ausdrücklich informiert.

Erst letzte Woche hat der Europäische Gerichtshof die Genehmigung von Abschalteinrichtungen durch das Kraftfahrtbundesamt für rechtswidrig erklärt und damit wird  Millionen betrugsgeschädigten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern der Rücken gestärkt. Die DUH stellt fest: Das zuständige Verwaltungsgericht Schleswig hat prompt reagiert und angekündigt, im Februar 2023 unsere vorliegenden Klagen zu insgesamt 119 Diesel-Fahrzeugmodellen zu verhandeln. Wir gehen fest davon aus, dass daraufhin alle Diesel-Fahrzeuge mit Abschalteinrichtung behördlich stillgelegt oder nachgerüstet werden müssen – natürlich auf Kosten der Hersteller.

Das ist eine gute Nachricht, da nach der "Erholung" und den Gewinnen des letzten Halbjahres auch genug Geld für eine angemessene Entschädigung vorhanden ist. Außerdem wächst der Druck auf die Kfz-Hersteller den Umstieg auf alternative Antriebstechnologien zu beschleunigen.

Mehr dazu bei http://www.duh.de/newsletter/neues-kapitel-im-diesel-betrugskrimi-groesster-industrieskandal-der-deutschen-nachkriegszeit-geht-noch-viel-weiter-als-bisher-bekannt/

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Customer: MERCEDES BENZ DIESEL G CLASS. DMV: G, GANG REFERENCE Verdict: ACCEPTED

[clouds-of-wings]

I watch this imagining it's 2am, we're on some couch at a party and I have no idea who he is, and he just keeps ranting about this and I'm half-asleep and kinda listen and don't believe any of it because I don't know if he knows his shit or is just some dude who thinks he knows everything.

In other words, regular "guy I meet at a college party" experience.

Then he starts talking about how he was in the Eurogroup and I think "Either I should know who he is or he is more than just drunk."

(Since I do know who he is, I think he's probably right of course, but it's just more fun this way.)

[sauolasa]

Dieselgate: ex capo di Audi Stadler condannato a un anno e 9 mesi con sospensione condizionale

Dieselgate: il Tribunale di Monaco di Baviera ha condannato l'ex capo di Audi Rupert Stadler a una pena di 1 anno e 9 mesi con sospensione condizionale. Stadler è stato riconosciuto colpevole di frode per aver bloccato troppo tardi la vendita di auto diesel con emissioni manipolate (Dpa e Zeit)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Tesla's Dieselgate

Elon Musk lies a lot. He lies about being a “utopian socialist.” He lies about being a “free speech absolutist.” He lies about which companies he founded:

https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-cofounder-martin-eberhard-interview-history-elon-musk-ev-market-2023-2 He lies about being the “chief engineer” of those companies:

https://www.quora.com/Was-Elon-Musk-the-actual-engineer-behind-SpaceX-and-Tesla

He lies about really stupid stuff, like claiming that comsats that share the same spectrum will deliver steady broadband speeds as they add more users who each get a narrower slice of that spectrum:

https://www.eff.org/wp/case-fiber-home-today-why-fiber-superior-medium-21st-century-broadband

The fundamental laws of physics don’t care about this bullshit, but people do. The comsat lie convinced a bunch of people that pulling fiber to all our homes is literally impossible — as though the electrical and phone lines that come to our homes now were installed by an ancient, lost civilization. Pulling new cabling isn’t a mysterious art, like embalming pharaohs. We do it all the time. One of the poorest places in America installed universal fiber with a mule named “Ole Bub”:

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-one-traffic-light-town-with-some-of-the-fastest-internet-in-the-us

Previous tech barons had “reality distortion fields,” but Musk just blithely contradicts himself and pretends he isn’t doing so, like a budget Steve Jobs. There’s an entire site devoted to cataloging Musk’s public lies:

https://elonmusk.today/

But while Musk lacks the charm of earlier Silicon Valley grifters, he’s much better than they ever were at running a long con. For years, he’s been promising “full self driving…next year.”

https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/09/herbies-revenge/#100-billion-here-100-billion-there-pretty-soon-youre-talking-real-money

He’s hasn’t delivered, but he keeps claiming he has, making Teslas some of the deadliest cars on the road:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/10/tesla-autopilot-crashes-elon-musk/

Tesla is a giant shell-game masquerading as a car company. The important thing about Tesla isn’t its cars, it’s Tesla’s business arrangement, the Tesla-Financial Complex:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/24/no-puedo-pagar-no-pagara/#Rat

Once you start unpacking Tesla’s balance sheets, you start to realize how much the company depends on government subsidies and tax-breaks, combined with selling carbon credits that make huge, planet-destroying SUVs possible, under the pretense that this is somehow good for the environment:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/14/for-sale-green-indulgences/#killer-analogy

But even with all those financial shenanigans, Tesla’s got an absurdly high valuation, soaring at times to 1600x its profitability:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/15/hoover-calling/#intangibles

That valuation represents a bet on Tesla’s ability to extract ever-higher rents from its customers. Take Tesla’s batteries: you pay for the battery when you buy your car, but you don’t own that battery. You have to rent the right to use its full capacity, with Tesla reserving the right to reduce how far you go on a charge based on your willingness to pay:

https://memex.craphound.com/2017/09/10/teslas-demon-haunted-cars-in-irmas-path-get-a-temporary-battery-life-boost/

That’s just one of the many rent-a-features that Tesla drivers have to shell out for. You don’t own your car at all: when you sell it as a used vehicle, Tesla strips out these features you paid for and makes the next driver pay again, reducing the value of your used car and transfering it to Tesla’s shareholders:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/2/6/21127243/tesla-model-s-autopilot-disabled-remotely-used-car-update

To maintain this rent-extraction racket, Tesla uses DRM that makes it a felony to alter your own car’s software without Tesla’s permission. This is the root of all autoenshittification:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

This is technofeudalism. Whereas capitalists seek profits (income from selling things), feudalists seek rents (income from owning the things other people use). If Telsa were a capitalist enterprise, then entrepreneurs could enter the market and sell mods that let you unlock the functionality in your own car:

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/11/1-in-3/#boost-50

But because Tesla is a feudal enterprise, capitalists must first secure permission from the fief, Elon Musk, who decides which companies are allowed to compete with him, and how.

Once a company owns the right to decide which software you can run, there’s no limit to the ways it can extract rent from you. Blocking you from changing your device’s software lets a company run overt scams on you. For example, they can block you from getting your car independently repaired with third-party parts.

But they can also screw you in sneaky ways. Once a device has DRM on it, Section 1201 of the DMCA makes it a felony to bypass that DRM, even for legitimate purposes. That means that your DRM-locked device can spy on you, and because no one is allowed to explore how that surveillance works, the manufacturer can be incredibly sloppy with all the personal info they gather:

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/29/tesla-model-3-keeps-data-like-crash-videos-location-phone-contacts.html

All kinds of hidden anti-features can lurk in your DRM-locked car, protected from discovery, analysis and criticism by the illegality of bypassing the DRM. For example, Teslas have a hidden feature that lets them lock out their owners and summon a repo man to drive them away if you have a dispute about a late payment:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

DRM is a gun on the mantlepiece in Act I, and by Act III, it goes off, revealing some kind of ugly and often dangerous scam. Remember Dieselgate? Volkswagen created a line of demon-haunted cars: if they thought they were being scrutinized (by regulators measuring their emissions), they switched into a mode that traded performance for low emissions. But when they believed themselves to be unobserved, they reversed this, emitting deadly levels of NOX but delivering superior mileage.

The conversion of the VW diesel fleet into mobile gas-chambers wouldn’t have been possible without DRM. DRM adds a layer of serious criminal jeopardy to anyone attempting to reverse-engineer and study any device, from a phone to a car. DRM let Apple claim to be a champion of its users’ privacy even as it spied on them from asshole to appetite:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

Now, Tesla is having its own Dieselgate scandal. A stunning investigation by Steve Stecklow and Norihiko Shirouzu for Reuters reveals how Tesla was able to create its own demon-haunted car, which systematically deceived drivers about its driving range, and the increasingly desperate measures the company turned to as customers discovered the ruse:

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

The root of the deception is very simple: Tesla mis-sells its cars by falsely claiming ranges that those cars can’t attain. Every person who ever bought a Tesla was defrauded.

But this fraud would be easy to detect. If you bought a Tesla rated for 353 miles on a charge, but the dashboard range predictor told you that your fully charged car could only go 150 miles, you’d immediately figure something was up. So your Telsa tells another lie: the range predictor tells you that you can go 353 miles.

But again, if the car continued to tell you it has 203 miles of range when it was about to run out of charge, you’d figure something was up pretty quick — like, the first time your car ran out of battery while the dashboard cheerily informed you that you had 203 miles of range left.

So Teslas tell a third lie: when the battery charge reached about 50%, the fake range is replaced with the real one. That way, drivers aren’t getting mass-stranded by the roadside, and the scam can continue.

But there’s a new problem: drivers whose cars are rated for 353 miles but can’t go anything like that far on a full charge naturally assume that something is wrong with their cars, so they start calling Tesla service and asking to have the car checked over.

This creates a problem for Tesla: those service calls can cost the company $1,000, and of course, there’s nothing wrong with the car. It’s performing exactly as designed. So Tesla created its boldest fraud yet: a boiler-room full of anti-salespeople charged with convincing people that their cars weren’t broken.

This new unit — the “diversion team” — was headquartered in a Nevada satellite office, which was equipped with a metal xylophone that would be rung in triumph every time a Tesla owner was successfully conned into thinking that their car wasn’t defrauding them.

When a Tesla owner called this boiler room, the diverter would run remote diagnostics on their car, then pronounce it fine, and chide the driver for having energy-hungry driving habits (shades of Steve Jobs’s “You’re holding it wrong”):

https://www.wired.com/2010/06/iphone-4-holding-it-wrong/

The drivers who called the Diversion Team weren’t just lied to, they were also punished. The Tesla app was silently altered so that anyone who filed a complaint about their car’s range was no longer able to book a service appointment for any reason. If their car malfunctioned, they’d have to request a callback, which could take several days.

Meanwhile, the diverters on the diversion team were instructed not to inform drivers if the remote diagnostics they performed detected any other defects in the cars.

The diversion team had a 750 complaint/week quota: to juke this stat, diverters would close the case for any driver who failed to answer the phone when they were eventually called back. The center received 2,000+ calls every week. Diverters were ordered to keep calls to five minutes or less.

Eventually, diverters were ordered to cease performing any remote diagnostics on drivers’ cars: a source told Reuters that “Thousands of customers were told there is nothing wrong with their car” without any diagnostics being performed.

Predicting EV range is an inexact science as many factors can affect battery life, notably whether a journey is uphill or downhill. Every EV automaker has to come up with a figure that represents some kind of best guess under a mix of conditions. But while other manufacturers err on the side of caution, Tesla has the most inaccurate mileage estimates in the industry, double the industry average.

Other countries’ regulators have taken note. In Korea, Tesla was fined millions and Elon Musk was personally required to state that he had deceived Tesla buyers. The Korean regulator found that the true range of Teslas under normal winter conditions was less than half of the claimed range.

Now, many companies have been run by malignant narcissists who lied compulsively — think of Thomas Edison, archnemesis of Nikola Tesla himself. The difference here isn’t merely that Musk is a deeply unfit monster of a human being — but rather, that DRM allows him to defraud his customers behind a state-enforced opaque veil. The digital computers at the heart of a Tesla aren’t just demons haunting the car, changing its performance based on whether it believes it is being observed — they also allow Musk to invoke the power of the US government to felonize anyone who tries to peer into the black box where he commits his frauds.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

This Sunday (July 30) at 1530h, I’m appearing on a panel at Midsummer Scream in Long Beach, CA, to discuss the wonderful, award-winning “Ghost Post” Haunted Mansion project I worked on for Disney Imagineering.

Image ID [A scene out of an 11th century tome on demon-summoning called 'Compendium rarissimum totius Artis Magicae sistematisatae per celeberrimos Artis hujus Magistros. Anno 1057. Noli me tangere.' It depicts a demon tormenting two unlucky would-be demon-summoners who have dug up a grave in a graveyard. One summoner is held aloft by his hair, screaming; the other screams from inside the grave he is digging up. The scene has been altered to remove the demon's prominent, urinating penis, to add in a Tesla supercharger, and a red Tesla Model S nosing into the scene.]

Image: Steve Jurvetson (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tesla_Model_S_Indoors.jpg

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[otaviogilbert]

The Most Expensive Lie In Automobile Industry: $25 Billion Mistake of Volkswagen | Business Decipher

Once hailed as the global leader in diesel vehicles, Volkswagen's reputation took a critical hit & you’ll be shocked to know the reason. What appeared to be groundbreaking achievements & leaps of innovation by Volkswagen were later exposed as fabrications of lies pasted upon a massive scandal. But the story of how a company once synonymous with innovation and trust regained its reputation after a scandal that shook the automotive Industry & the entire world. Today, we dive into the story of Volkswagen's "Dieselgate" and explore the twists and turns of a deception that cost billions.

[petro1986]

This is basically what the Skoda Roomster became

Citroën AX Van Evasion, 1988, by Heuliez. The French coachbuilder's proposal for a high-roof estate car based on the Citroen AX hatchback however Citroën weren't interested in expanding the AX range.