Volkswagen Emission Scandal: Description, Ethical Issue, ICT Profession, ACS Code of Ethics

VOLKSWAGEN EMISSION
SCANDAL

Contents
Description of the incident...............................................................................................................2
What was the ethical issue?.............................................................................................................3
What ICT profession was involved?................................................................................................3
ACS code of Ethics..........................................................................................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................5

Description of the incident
The incident highlights about Volkswagen (VW) emission cheating scandal which highlights
about the software that gave a false result on the emission tests. The company hired IT
programmers to hack the test for showing a pass, when it would really be a failure under the
normal conditions. VW used the turbocharged direct injection for their diesel engines which
allowed a higher precision for the fuel delivery. It led to a higher injection pressure which led to
the automation of the fuel and control of emissions. The company deals with the designing,
manufacturing and distributing the vehicles to the passengers. VW has a huge market criteria
which highlights about the high annual revenue and fame. The company has been caught in the
ethical emission scandal (Oldenkamp et al., 2016). In 2015, the VW Emission Scandal came to
notice when the company found that they had intentionally programmed for Turbo Charged
Injection to activate some specific emission controls only, at the time of emission testing. There
were unique parameters of the drive, set by Environmental Protection Agency that were to be
tested. The company used the emission control software so that there is no possibility of
detection for the same. Later, it was found that the company had programmed the TDI (Turbo
Charged Injection) for activating the emission controls at the time of testing in the laboratory.
The emission software was then installed by Volkswagen in 0.5 million cars in U.S. It was seen
that there was a major problem related to the increased pollution which was detected from the
car. This scandal was proven as a major benefit for the company and the customers. The cars
which emit a lower carbon have a lower tax assessment than the ones who tend to emit a higher
carbon (Burmeister, 2017). Hence, the whole scandal has shown that CEO was mainly
responsible for the action and there were different parties which were involved in it. Hence, to
apply to the ethics, one needs to act rationally and allow or help the others to act in a rational