Volkswagen: The Software That Lied to Regulators

Eleven million vehicles. Software that detected when an emissions test was running and switched into compliance mode — then switched back the moment the test ended, pumping out up to forty times the legal limit of nitrogen oxide. The defeat device was not a rogue piece of code. It was a corporate decision.This episode of Dark Money: True Crime Finance goes inside the Volkswagen emissions scandal — how one of the world's largest automakers engineered a deliberate deception of regulators across multiple countries, what thirty billion dollars in fines and settlements looks like, and what the gap between the test and the real world costs the people breathing the air.Subscribe to Dark Money: True Crime Finance for new episodes daily