Vw Ethical Dilemmas

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VW owns 70 percent of the passenger-car diesel market. VW has been promoting for a long time of clean diesel and how these cars are better than the hybrid and electric cars. The company even involved itself with marching in events that supported the diesel cars. VW was caught cheating on diesel emission tests.

In September eighteenth, 2015, the EPA caught VW cheating by installing a software that can detect when the car is getting tested. This software changes the performance of the engine to meet the American standards. The company now faces many issues financially and ethically. First of all, they have a financial issue that will cost them approximately 18 billion dollars to solve this problem. The second issue is that they have

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