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Volkswagen to recall about 500,000 cars over sneaky software
Volkswagen has been told to recall about half a million of its diesel passenger cars. The German automaker ran into trouble with the Obama administration for allegedly installing a sneaky software that's designed to disguise the cars' pollutants during Environmental Protection Agency's stringent emissions testing. The agency caught the violation and went after the carmaker for employing the "defeat device" -- a system that's programmed to know when the car's being tested so it automatically turns on its full emissions control systems. Post-testing It then goes back to normal mode, where those controls are switched off, during everyday driving circumstances.
