be allowed to decide what they re going to do this is my understanding here i mean some cities in germany have already tried to introduce these bans will said that they would like to see that s been challenge so that s why it s in the courts. and of course not every city thinks that a ban is the right way to go the government itself including the expected grand coalition the new government that s likely to come in soon here has said that it would like to avoid driving ban for diesel vehicles because obviously they re worried about the effect that could have only economy dots some cities say you know we have to protect people this is a health question and we need to take drastic measures ok so it s a health issue versus economics in many ways as an adult but what about the connection to the diesel gate scandal specially regarding v.w. and emissions and how they re there were incorrectly measure yeah i mean i think if
reacted to this latest explosion is the same narrative that we ve seen since the eruption of the diesel gate scandal we re terribly sorry that this has happened say that the supervisory board of that said we did not know that it was happening that . also what dima has said is well it s a classic risk communications strategy as centrally you blame a cell of rogue employees that s what they re trying to do now earlier in the day when i spoke to somebody who tried to give business advisory consultation advice to folks often during the diesel the emissions scandal he s also a moral philosopher and he said to me the reason that such a huge mistake such huge failings occur is when a company or an industry gets too big to fail almost is this market dominance and that often means that these failings the systemic there from the top down on this is that they hubris the fatal flaw is this arak and of market dominance that s what he said to me what about the pressure now on politicians to act i th
personal power could also play a part and that could be accelerated by new year s resolutions for a while at least. to shed some more light on the future of mobility peter mark joins me in the studio he s the managing director at the nonprofit international council on clean transportation here in europe peter good to have you on the program now your organization helped break the diesel gate scandal a major scandal rattling germany s biggest company in light of this should we even believe the automotive industry anymore after what you have helped to discover. well we have better regulations now than we had before diesel gets so i m really hoping that the car industry is following those rules now and that the emissions that they inform the customers about are the real emissions so i would say yes we can trust them and i m looking forward to a better and more real information in the future now amid these false exhaust
u.k. has one of their largest export markets but elsewhere in the e.u. the picture isn t as bleak. almost twelve million cars were sold by september up three point seven percent over the previous year. whereas in the u.s. calls will slip by almost three percent. car manufacturers delivered most of their new vehicles to chinese addresses while india s car market continued to grow netting almost eight percent growth. in europe most customers are choosing traditional gas powered cars diesel motors are steen on more and more car lots following the diesel gate scandal and talk of possible driving bans and then possible end of diesel subsidies. and i will have a full fifteen minutes of business for you next hour thank you ben a court in turkey has released a turkish german journalist pending trial for terrorism michelle tillis case says test at the already strained relations between berlin and to lou was arrested
that would really help to move things forward in these of the investigations the big question hanging over all of this though is whether what folks are going did is actually even illegal in europe now it is definitely in the u.s. but of course the consequences are different in the u.s. folks aren t can t just fix the cars that s why they have to pay out huge sums but in europe they say we can just make software updates because the requirements in europe emissions requirements are a lot less so essentially they are getting away without massive investigations of massive prosecutions like there is in the u.s. now you mentioned the software updates in europe has cost a billions to settle the case in the u.s. could the sentencing of all of it be the end of the diesel gate scandal for folks like. i highly doubt it now make no mistake this thirty billion dollars in fines and rebates and so on that they re having to do is just a drop in the ocean for them if you look at last year after paying