Volkswagen's $30 Billion Secret Was in the Software

In 2015, the world found out that Volkswagen's diesel cars could tell when they were being tested. In the lab, they passed. On real roads, a Jetta put out up to 35 times the legal limit for nitrogen oxides. Eleven million cars had the software. Volkswagen had sold them as "Clean Diesel". By 2019, the bill had passed €30 billion. How does one of the biggest carmakers on Earth end up cheating with code? We open the car's own software — line by line — and follow how a few researchers in West Virginia caught it. Business schemes that sounded impossible — and somehow happened. Subscribe for the next one. Next: Theranos — the startup that faked a very different kind of test. #Volkswagen #Dieselgate #BusinessHistory #Documentary #Scandal