Report: VW was warned about cheating emissions in 2007
Found on Ars Technica on Sunday, 27 September 2015
Newspapers in Germany are reporting that Bosch (the company that supplies electronics to the auto industry) warned VW only to use the cheat mode internally back in 2007, and that a whistleblower tried to raise the alarm internally in 2011.
VW has lost its chairman, a big chunk of market value, and probably the trust of many customers.
That's what greed gets you. All the big talk about transparency and honesty comes from every company (or politician for that matter), but in the end, they just lie and cheat as long as it increases the profit.