‘A Few Dirty Tricks’: Documents Show Audi’s Role in the Volkswagen Emissions Scandal

After more than $30 billion in fines, numerous indicted executives and a guilty plea in the United States, you wouldn’t think there was much more to learn about the Volkswagen emissions scandal.

Wrong. Nearly four years after Volkswagen confessed to systematically evading pollution rules for a decade, facets of the scandal are still coming to light. Newly uncovered documents viewed by The New York Times show that Volkswagen’s Audi luxury-car unit was more deeply involved in developing the emissions cheating scheme than previously known, and continued to sell vehicles with illegal software even after the scandal became public. read more »

Safety groups want FTC, state probes of Tesla’s Autopilot system–and its marketing efforts

Two consumer safety groups are calling for federal and state investigations of Tesla’s semi-autonomous technology in the wake of several fatal crashes linked to the system earlier this year.

The groups contend the automaker violated Section 5 of the FTC Act, as well as California consumer law. read more »