Volkswagen senior manager Oliver Schmidt has been sentenced to seven years in a U.S. prison for concealing software that was used to evade pollution limits on nearly 600,000 diesel vehicles. Lawyers spent roughly 90 minutes giving different views about Schmidt's culpability in the scandal in Detroit federal court on Wednesday. He met with key California regulators in 2015 but didn't disclose the rogue software. VW used sophisticated software to cheat emissions rules on nearly 600,000 U.S. vehicles and 100,000 in Canada. The software reduced harmful emissions of nitrogen oxide when the cars were being tested, but on the road, the emissions were well over limits to control pollution.

Source: CBC News December 06, 2017 21:56 UTC