Volkswagen

2025-06-01T13:32:20Z

Marvelous3824: Put Controversies into the Format used by similar articles like BMW and MB, called it Incidents and added a reference to the SFD article

{{InfoboxCompany
| Name = Volkswagen
| Type = Public
| Founded = 1937
| Industry = Automotive
| Official Website = https://vw.com/
| Logo = Volkswagen.svg
}}

'''[[wikipedia:Volkswagen|Volkswagen]]''' is a Germany-based automobile manufacturing company. It was established as part of the [[Wikipedia:German_Labour_Front|German Labour Front]] in 1937. In recent years, the company's vehicles have been equipped with systems that collect customer data, leading to a notable incident.

==Incidents==
===Volkswagen found to be cheating in regulatory emissions tests (2015)===
Volkswagen was among several automotive manufacturers who deliberately programmed their emission control systems to only work with full effectivity when the car detected that a regulatory emissions test is being performed. The cars only fulfilled emissions standards in this lab environment.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_emissions_scandal</ref>

===Volkswagen introduces SFD (2020) and SFD 2 (2024), blocking independent repairs===
{{Main|Volkswagen AG - SFD(2) / UNCE - Protection of car diagnosis}}
Since 2024, Volkswagen AG implements SFD 2 in its vehicles, which blocks access to the car's control units unless users have a valid account in Volkswagen's backend system. Independent mechanics and car owners must purchase $50 unlock tokens for each control unit they need to access, with the units automatically re-locking after 90 minutes.

===Volkswagen car location data gets exposed (2024)===
{{Main|Volkswagen car-location data-exposure incident}}
Customer vehicle data vehicle data stored on AWS with CARIAD was discovered to have public instances due to a possible misconfiguration. See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_II378UoxY

==References==
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