2 ms·
Other than border disputes, when has measurement been a political football before? The nerd in me is happy about this, but the rest of me is kinda ... sad. It'
by ArkyBeagle 11y ago
Other than border disputes, when has measurement been a political football before? The nerd in me is happy about this, but the rest of me is kinda ... sad.
It's also interesting that there appears to be a tradeoff between NOx and CO2 here.
IMO, VW sort of ... prematurely fell on the grenade in a PR way of thinking about it. Actually proving it as fraud would have taken some doing. Admitting it up front does not have clear advantages that I see. If we use the GM keyswitch debacle as a yardstick, there's evidence than being a cheeseball is rewarded. GM managed to constrain the damage to $99M .
Not saying anyone did the right thing here, but the adversarial approach has consequences.
- ZeroGravitas 11y agoThey appear to have been denying it for a year at this point, before they admitted it. So presumably something happened in that period of time that made them calculate that admitting it now was better than continuing to deny it.
- ArkyBeagle 11y agoUff. Thanks - that makes sense.
- whatthesmack 11y agoI don't recall where I saw it, but there was mention of 2016 VW TDI models not getting road certification until the issue was dealt with. Maybe this was incentive for VW to come clean.