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Uh, what is this?

• deleted 11y ago
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• Sanddancer 11y ago
  The law Volkswagen seems to have broken -- http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/business/volkswagen-is-ordered-to-recall-nearly-500000-vehicles-over-emissions-software.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/19/business/volkswagen-is-ord...
• PhasmaFelis 11y ago
  Shhh. When Hacker News links to something incomprehensible with no explanation, you're supposed to Google it yourself and then pretend you knew all along.
  • dogma1138 11y ago
    Or be like every news outlet out there and pretend this is a known and common term and just use in quotes. All 10 articles I've seen about the VW thing, each and everyone of them used 'defeat device' in either double or single quotes without explaining what it is just that the EPA doesn't like it. From autonews to the various posts and times and the editorials no one explained it. Heck even Google doesn't really knows it, i found the explanation for this only in a site containing definitions for shipping (as in a Ship) terminologies.
  • eugenekolo2 11y ago
    Sadly see this case a bit too often on HN.