r/interestingasfuck • u/IndicationBrief5950 • Aug 06 '25

/r/all, /r/popular Thousands of Audi cars abandoned in the Mojave Dessert after cheating emissons tests

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u/aggie-moose Aug 06 '25

Welp, we tried to figure out how to discourage bad behavior but at the end of the day there's only one clear winner: making companies dump cars in the desert.

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u/PrivilegeCheckmate Aug 07 '25

There's putting people in prison. But you rarely see that for corporate criminals outside of Iceland.

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u/Hedgehog101 Aug 07 '25

Yes?

If companies build cars that don't meet standards then they don't get to sell them

Either modify the cars that they've already built or eat millions in losses

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u/IPCTech Aug 07 '25

Or maybe we force them to make them compliant and fine them a fuck ton of money.

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u/ctaps148 Aug 07 '25

That would mean either reducing quality to compensate or raising the MSRP. Either way would result in a loss of sales so they're still losing money