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Why You Should Be Unsettled By The Biggest Automotive Settlement In History, Sarah Dadush
Why You Should Be Unsettled By The Biggest Automotive Settlement In History, Sarah Dadush
University of Colorado Law Review Forum
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Identity Harm, Sarah Dadush
Identity Harm, Sarah Dadush
University of Colorado Law Review
In September 2015, the world learned that Volkswagen had rigged millions of its "clean diesel" vehicles with illegal software designed to cheat emissions tests. Contrary to what had been advertised, the vehicles are anything but clean. When affected owners learned that their cars were toxic, what were they most upset about? Was it that their cars were now worth fewer dollars? Or that they had been deceived into being hyperpolluting drivers, when they thought they were being green? Coverage of the emissions scandal strongly suggests that affected car owners experienced both kinds of disappointment, economic and noneconomic, and in heavy …