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Please login to bookmark Save(0) Please login to bookmark Username or Email Address Password Remember Me Mercedes-Benz is the latest car maker to face a class action in Australia […]

Software has been a sore spot for Europe’s largest carmaker ever since the use of illegal defeat devices resulted in the “dieselgate” scandal at Volkswagen in 2015, the largest such case to date. Software Volkswagen AG used to alter car emissions at certain temperatures constituted an illegal …

Image: picture-alliance/dpa/P. Pleul In September 2015 US authorities revealed that VW had been selling diesel cars fitted with software designed to improve emission results when engines were being tested. VW went on to admit that millions of vehicles were affected worldwide.  In the US the company …