In the interests of truth could someone either find some proof that VW was cheating and post it, OR refrain from the "VW cheating" meme. You guys know something about screw ups in software. Isn't it much more likely that the engineers at VW took the software that they bought from Bosch and then added a big list of "features " that the pointy headed bosses thought would "add value". Then the software broke because they had changed the logic without knowing it. It seemed to work, so no one checked, they didn't have a budget for it. After all a logical proof would have taken decades and cost X times the German GDP. Below is the only link I can find to the so called "smoking gun".
"It appears they did this with the intent of clearly making the emissions performance different on the test cycle, which I think is the most surprising,” Anair said in an interview.
http://www.scientificamerican....
Note the humble technician says 'It appears that.........", he doesn't say "I have proof", and if he did have, he would have said so.
The EPA has accidentally fooled the world's media. Remember that Toyota got scammed for billions because someone put a rubber mat over the throttle pedal of their car, and now GM is being scammed for more billions because people hung heavy weights on their key chains. The search for truth depends on intelligent scepticism. At the moment all we can say for certain is that VW is about to be scammed for billions.
You guys can do better than this.
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In the interests of truth could someone either find some proof that VW was cheating and post it, OR refrain from the "VW cheating" meme. You guys know something about screw ups in software. Isn't it much more likely that the engineers at VW took the software that they bought from Bosch and then added a big list of "features " that the pointy headed bosses thought would "add value". Then the software broke because they had changed the logic without knowing it. It seemed to work, so no one checked, they didn't have a budget for it. After all a logical proof would have taken decades and cost X times the German GDP. Below is the only link I can find to the so called "smoking gun". "It appears they did this with the intent of clearly making the emissions performance different on the test cycle, which I think is the most surprising,” Anair said in an interview. http://www.scientificamerican.... Note the humble technician says 'It appears that.........", he doesn't say "I have proof", and if he did have, he would have said so. The EPA has accidentally fooled the world's media. Remember that Toyota got scammed for billions because someone put a rubber mat over the throttle pedal of their car, and now GM is being scammed for more billions because people hung heavy weights on their key chains. The search for truth depends on intelligent scepticism. At the moment all we can say for certain is that VW is about to be scammed for billions. You guys can do better than this.