The night of Wednesday published a video in which the Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn apologize for diesel cheat. Winterkorn swears to go to the root of the problem and points to the mistakes that “few have made” not to discredit all the other work of the Group. But how many actually knew the diesel cheat?
In the video above, published by Volkswagen during the night of Wednesday, asking the CEO Martin Winterkorn apologized for the faulty software. He says among other things that he knows how dedicated and responsible employees are in the group and points out that the mistakes that “few have made” not to discredit all other work.
Martin Winterkorn says much the same thing as in the The first press release, namely that it will cooperate with authorities in the US and have full transparency. “Everything should be on the table” and it should be read as that we can expect anything, even a personal responsibility in terms of the board members resign or that Martin Winterkorn himself takes the ultimate responsibility and leaves its mission.
Those who know Martin Winterkorn know that he is completely obsessed with all the technical details and has a unique breadth in its longstanding knowledge. “A bit UNABLE TO LET THINGS ALONE” We have heard several times but at the same time, nobody is questioning the technical competence of Winterkorn.
How antipollution works and what EQUILIBRIUM made in relation to other technical solutions is of course well known for Winterkorn . Using a NOx trap instead of the more expensive SCR-treatment with AdBlue fluid may have been a way to bridge some years of technological development. But to deliberately cheat with programming to bring down fuel consumption is of course quite different.
Did Martin Winterkorn that cheating with software? Those who answer no to the question can argue that the CEO is just too experienced and smart to compromise the brand’s credibility. The stake is too high for the small profits.
to suggest that this knowledge must have been general spread is that the program code can hardly have been a secret for those who work with technology. But the test methods are well known and the risk of detection – because the cheating was very cleverly done – was small. Perhaps it was to totally convinced that no one would discover the cheating?
It remains to be seen how many there were who really knew the software was cheating until the low NOx emissions. So far we have only seen the beginning of diesel scandal and some observers argue that this can shake the Volkswagen foundation and might lead to such a strained economy to product development and the company’s future is at stake.
I believe that the knowledge of the fraud was high up in VW’s management.
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