“The car of the future is a computer with wheels. And wherever there’s software, you’ll also find bugs, hacks, and blue screens of death.” James Grimmelmann explains why the Volkswagen scandal is just the beginning.

+ In the NYT, Zeynep Tufekci on Volkswagen and the era of cheating software: “A smart object can lie and cheat. It can tell when it’s being tested, and it can beat the test.”

+ Porsche CEO Matthais Müller will take over the Volkswagen Group following Monday’s resignation of Martin Winterkorn. (If your company cheats and gets in big trouble, shouldn’t your punishment be not quitting?)