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this episode of TechnoBuffalo is brought to you by the new LG OLED TV it's not a new TV it's a new category of telling what's up everyone John Ritter from TechnoBuffalo here so this is a bit different type of video though I have usually done the past I'm a big car guy and also I've got a guilty pleasure of loving a good scandal and there is definitely a juicy one going on right now with Volkswagen so I thought I'd explain what's happening with Volkswagen might have heard about it in the news and sort of explain it step by step what they did and what's going to happen and what kind of cars are affected so here's a general overview of what's been going on Volkswagen cheated on EPA emissions test by creating software that deliberately altered the clean diesel emissions of their card during testing it's kind of crazy how they did it it was like a mad scientist genius way detecting when the car's been tested by the EPA it was able to test steering wheel position speed how long the engine runs on even atmospheric pressure and all those things make it impossible for to have been an accident that the software is put in the car as an accent of innocent it was very deliberate and deliberately put in the car to skirt these EPA tests and to give false results makes my everything has happened including just recently the CEO of Volkswagen stepping down Martin vinkle horn just a few days ago the first question that I had was how the hell did all this happen and the funny thing is that happened totally by accident so a random third party not government-affiliated actually was the University was testing diesel emissions was testing fuel emissions they were being performed by the International Council on clean transport the ICCT they had first ones that discovered this emissions issue other tests really just setting out to prove the hypothesis that Volkswagens new generation of TDI diesel engines for cleaner than standard gasoline engines but unwittingly exposed everything shady that Volkswagen was doing so they were trying to show how good these cars were and sort of show that Volkswagen promoting their Clean Diesel as clean was really clean and they stumbled on something that Volkswagen is gonna haunt them for a very long time so the ICCT first tested several diesel vehicles on a Dyna meter or a rolling road you might have seen those things and then in the real world so on the rolling road things look pretty normal however in the real world things just did not add up at all so did a little bit a road trip they hopped in the car they drove from same day to Seattle they enlisted the help of West Virginia University the ICCT tested the emissions of a Jetta TDI a Passat TDI bmw x5 x drive 35 D now the road trips the Jetta proves 15 to 35 times the u.s. legal limit usually referred to as tier 2 bin 5 of NOx which stands for nitrogen oxides the facade produced 5 to 20 times legal limit and that's a lot of emissions coming out of these supposedly clean cars while BMWs emissions were at or below the regulated rate so BMW good exhale no one's mad at you this time at the same time the California Air resource board or carb tested the vehicles in the laboratories and vehicles passed with flying colors I get very different results they got for the is ECT so in May of this year the EPA got wind of this and they started investigating and that got us to where we are right now these results finally coming public so what cars are affected a lot of them 2 liter TDI diesel vehicles are fitted with the defeat devices span from 2009 to 2015 from both OD and volkswagen the VW models include the Jetta TDI Passat TDI Golf TDI Jetta SportWagen TDI and beetle TDI the Audi models 2009 2013 a3 TDI as well as the new 2015 a3 TDI that was a lot of TDI's so right now Volkswagens has not issued a plan to fix the cars but I assume we'll have one very soon roughly in the u.s. 482 thousand cars are affected and here's where things get even more staggering 11 million cars worldwide could be affected so what's looking like I'm gonna do first I can change engine software which will limit engine output and fuel economy drastically or they could install your urea treatment system which not only required huge ran a vehicle modification cutting the trunk space cargo space but also cost VW thousands of dollars per car the things are really really bad here if you follow the car world at all you know folks like me for years have been touting Clean Diesel don't worry about driving efficiently dirty diesel engine and we've cleaned it up it'll get great fuel economy get instant torque and not pollute the and those are all wrong so madness for a second that you went and just bought a new clean diesel car and you were banking on insulating that car maybe five or six years based on a high residual value now your car is going to ticky residual hit and not gonna be worth what you thought it was gonna be worth and beyond that and Volkswagen fixes it you're not gonna get the fuel economy thought you're getting and beyond that now you're polluting the environment up to 40 times that you should be people are very upset Volkswagen is going to face so many class-action lawsuits and beyond the billions and billions of billions that I have to pay to settle that they're probably looking at about half a trillion dollar fines anyway real fast let me exhale from all these diesel fumes that I've been breathing in to thank our friends at LG and tell you about the new LG OLED TVs so legitimately these things look ridiculous if you remember the first time that you saw a high-def TV versus regular def TV you know it's a staggering experience that's a difference of seeing a regular LED TV or plasma TV versus the brand-new LG OLED sets they look absolutely incredible just a little Oh in front of the LED that stands for organic makes all the difference in the world the TVs look real it looks like a football game you're watching you're actually at the game it's staggering you'll see that it's not just the new TV it's it's almost like a whole new category of televisions they just look awesome if you haven't seen it for your own eyes that's the best way to check a TV go to a store see what the LG OLED TVs look like in person and I promise you'll be hoping this could be the end of Volkswagen and Audi as we know it at least into Volkswagen Audi in the u.s. this is a horrible thing that they've done it's not new in the carnot reason happening for four years four decades ago didn't replace a 50 cent part in the Pinto for the firewall they knew that if you got rear-ended the car would blow up because they deemed that it was more cost-effective to settle the lawsuits and to fix a car so things that just have been happening for a long time GM had an issue Hyundai's an issue with fuel economy numbers but this is the largest most widespread egregious blanket deception that we have ever seen from auto manufacturer so if I helped explain to you what's been going on if you drive on these cars I'm sorry it's hard but Volkswagens done I'm not sure how they're gonna this if they ever come out of it the same way that they went in I'll tear your guys thoughts on it and kind of what do you think about it a departure from the phone and what would they do that usually do I've been following the story really closely and I wanted to sort of just share my thoughts and opinions on it with you and I thank you guys for watching hope you enjoyed the next time I'm dry reading from TechnoBuffalo so you guys next video bye bye