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Carmakers used humans for gas test

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Jörg Jelinnek
January 29, 2018

It's a big new PR problem for the German car industry: Reports say German carmakers commissioned a test that exposed humans to a hazardous gas found in diesel fumes. 25 healthy young people inhaled nitrogen dioxide for several hours in a study funded by carmakers Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW.