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Well, you would not expect their ad agency to get the blame for fraudulent engineering, would you? Do you imply a dichotomy between engineers and "board people
by usrusr 11y ago
Well, you would not expect their ad agency to get the blame for fraudulent engineering, would you?
Do you imply a dichotomy between engineers and "board people"? The car industry is one of the last areas where top positions are routinely given to engineers who raised through the ranks, so to most of the board, an engineer isn't a "one of them" but a "one of us". From what i remember about the careers of german car CEOs, being head of engineering (still "an engineer") actually seems to be pretty close to "next in line for CEO".
- jacquesm 11y agoExactly. So there is zero (and I really believe that is 0 to several decimal places) credibility to the story that they had no idea this was going on. Unless with 'a couple of engineers' they meant their board of directors... It is just about unthinkable that a C level exec would be able to tell the board and the CEO that they came up with something 'magical' that drops the emissions of that engine by a factor of 40 and it can only be done in software without someone asking why. So I fully expect them to be in on it.