> What remains is explaining how engineering managers higher up (all the way to the top) could remain willfully ignorant of the fact > What remains is explaini

> What remains is explaining how engineering managers higher up (all the way to the top) could remain willfully ignorant of the fact > What remains is explaining how engineering managers higher up (all the way to the top) could remain willfully ignorant of the fact that VW's diesel engines "passed" emissions without resorting to exotic tech like Mercedes' bluetec exhaust fluids. How often do high level managers at a big company have a good handle on technical implementation details of specific systems and what the implications of those details actually are? It's possible that these people either had non-technical backgrounds, technical backgrounds in unrelated areas, or out of date technical backgrounds (like they last worked with this stuff back when cars still commonly had carburetors).