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Volkswagen Admits To Testing Diesel Fumes On Monkeys (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: In what seems like a John Henry versus the steam shovel-style competition to dig diesel's grave, Volkswagen has admitted to funding (and subsequently cheating on) animal testing to prove the relative safety of diesel exhaust fumes, according to findings by the New York Times. The tests, which were undertaken at the Lovelace Respiratory Research Institute in Albuquerque in 2014, involved as many as 10 monkeys and had them sitting in airtight containers as they breathed exhaust fumes from a diesel-powered Volkswagen Beetle while they watched cartoons for entertainment. The tests went on for 4 hours. "We apologize for the misconduct and the lack of judgment of individuals," said a Volkswagen representative in a statement. "We're convinced the scientific methods chosen then were wrong. It would have been better to do without such a study in the first place." The Volkswagen Beetle used in the test was equipped with the same compromised emissions software that could detect when the car was being tested in a lab environment so it was running as cleanly as it could, which I guess proves that Volkswagen will waste no opportunity to be hoisted by its own oil-burning petard.
I had just read the BBC story and was a bit surprised by that glaring omission here.
Mod parent up as Informative.
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
That isn't quite what happened.
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You missed the part where I suggested not being fucking stupid.
High NOx emissions are a well know effect of pushing a diesel engine to combust more efficiently
Oddly enough the design criteria is "efficient combustion" not "high NOx".
Fucking amazing that. Who would've thought you'd be stupid enough to contradict yourself.