Volkswagen Hack

In the traditional meaning of the word hack, there are some half-million diesel powered Volkswagens out that have the capability to detect when they are hooked up to an emissions computer and switch modes to ‘burn clean’, which are normally pushing out much higher than regulatorily allowed pollutants into the air. The investigations are still underway, but it is said that there are emissions discrepancies in eleven million diesel vehicles worldwide.

Volkswagen also owns other vehicle brands, but it’s is not known if the emissions hack exists in those vehicle systems as well.

It’s not known how far up the chain of command the decision to install the hack capability to commit emissions-fraud was made, but Volkswagen CEO, Martin Winterkorn, has stepped down and out.