Allegedly Volkswagen cheated to both governments and lusers

[Cathal (Phone)]

There's no "allegedly". The company fully admitted to this and even expanded the scope beyond the EPA's suspicions, IIRC.

Roll on enforced code audits, preferably enforced code openness, for all devices that can negatively screw society.

On 27 September 2015 11:39:13 IST, Georgi Guninski <guninski at guninski.com> wrote:
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/25/vw_pollution_just_the_tip_of_the_iceberg_whos_to_blame_you_guessed_it_hippies/
>
><quote>
>Volkswagen is being rightly condemned from all directions, as its
>methods were particularly cynical: its engine software would sense when
>the car was in a test environment and cut back NO_x output temporarily.
>
>As soon as the car was no longer under test, the car would change mode
>and emit huge amounts of NO_x. This wasn't done for no reason – if a
>machine is allowed to generate NO_x freely, it can be very
>fuel-efficient – and thus, of course, its carbon emissions can be very
>low too.
></quote>
>
>Comment:
>
>Probably best defense for VW lawyers is:
>"We got hacked and the hack made this.
>We take sickyouareity seriously"

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