How Volkswagen got caught cheating

Season 2015

How did Volkswagen get caught rigging the emissions software of its diesel vehicles? William Brangham talks with John German of the International Council on Clean Transportation, one of the engineers who helped catch the automaker.

AIR DATE 9/29/15

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