The new Volkswagen CEO Matthias Mueller Monday afternoon at a closed meeting reported that the bedrijfde software in the eleven million engineered diesel cars are replacing. Photo AFP / John Macdougall
Volkswagen is the eleven million diesel cars equipped with software for emission tests can be manipulated with the right programs in order to meet emissions legislation. That would be the new CEO Matthias Mueller have announced yesterday at a private meeting for about one thousand top executives at its headquarters in Wolfsburg, writes The Wall Street Journal.
The German group has “vast plan” to replace prepared which will be submitted to the German regulators. These customers would be notified within a few days. The cost of this intervention by analysts at $ 6.5 billion (approximately 5.7 billion) estimated.
The company is under fire after ten days ago showed that the car is equipped with software that emission measurements knowingly commits fraud. Volkswagen has given the German transport authority KBA until October 7 to submit a plan to the exhaust emissions of truth again.
Fewer cars hit
The new CEO reported on the meeting also that fewer cars are involved in diesel scandal than eleven million which the company made known earlier, because not all cars the engineered software would have also been activated. In total there is tampered with the software in 5 million Volkswagens, 1.8 million Volkswagen commercial vehicles, 2.1 million Audi’s 1.2 million Skoda and one million other types of vehicles (including Seat). What proportion of these will actually fraudulent software was running, is unknown.
Milieudefensie is hacking cars
Friends of the Earth announced today that they will hack proactive cars. The idea is to discover the source code of the software, says campaigner traffic Ivo Stumpe.
“We are trying to get a group of hackers and techies themselves access to software a couple of suspect marks. This is necessary to get the true extent of the scandal surfaced and prevent the new tests will lead to fraud and skulduggery. “
The environmental group will next access the internal programming Volkswagen also software brands like BMW, Mercedes and Opel crack
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