Volkswagen was accused of experiments on monkeys

1 February 2018

As a test could be used and people

In September 2015, the world learned that Volkswagen uses deceptive management program on their diesel cars that have lower emissions during testing. On some substances, real rates were 40 times higher than established standards. Eventually the manufacturer agreed to the recall of cars, but that did not stop. In America alone, the total costs of the German company on the courts and fines have already exceeded $26 billion, and in December a former top Manager of the American division of Volkswagen's Oliver Schmidt was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Now "Deselect" has received unexpected continuation. The newspaper the New York Times made another charge: the German company was doing experiments on monkeys. It is reported that in a sealed room locked ten primates. There were summed up the exhausts from Volkswagen Beetle with a diesel engine. Animals that showed cartoons.

In addition to this outrageous case surfaced another. The German newspaper Stuttgarter Zeitung said that at the direction of Volkswagen at the University of Aachen also conducted some tests, and for the people! Test subjects were placed in a medium with a slightly high NO2 content, which allegedly is also simulated emissions of engines running on "heavy" fuel.

In both experiments, there is one important detail. Customer tests were not the German concern, and the "European research group for the protection of the environment and health in the transport sector" (European Research Group on Environment and Health in the Transport Sector, EUGT). Financing was already involved in the Volkswagen, and not alone, and together with Daimler and BMW.

Now representatives of all three German automakers trying to distance itself from hard-hitting studies. They refer to the fact that the center EUGT worked independently and did not execute direct instructions from the top, so all these tests are just someone Amateur. "European research group" was disbanded last year after the "diselect". The main cause of the collapse indicated the inconsistency of the main sponsors.

What will follow new discoveries? Unfortunately, to get to the truth very difficult. On the one hand, on the background of the already proven deception on the part of Volkswagen, including its top leaders, from the German company can expect anything. On the other, now numerous competitors of the company can dig up a lot of dirt to pour oil on the fire.

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