The world is only at the beginning of what could be a long process of investigation and accountability for Volkswagen. If that process fuels wider disruption of the industry, it could lead to a genuinely new era for human mobility.
NEW YORK – When Michael Horn, the president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, recently testified before a committee of the US Congress about the software that Volkswagen installed on its diesel-powered cars to defeat emissions tests, he expressed his own incredulity that the blame lay with a couple of engineers. “I did not think that something like this was possible at the Volkswagen Group,” Horn said.
NEW YORK – When Michael Horn, the president and CEO of Volkswagen Group of America, recently testified before a committee of the US Congress about the software that Volkswagen installed on its diesel-powered cars to defeat emissions tests, he expressed his own incredulity that the blame lay with a couple of engineers. “I did not think that something like this was possible at the Volkswagen Group,” Horn said.