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I still wonder if/how much the programmers knew about what they were writing. I've know a lot of programmers who never look beyond the story they are given to w
by coldcode 9y ago
I still wonder if/how much the programmers knew about what they were writing. I've know a lot of programmers who never look beyond the story they are given to write, and those who are suspicious of everything.
- luca_ing 9y agoI've been working with German OEMs for years. It was a well-known secret that the regulatory emission tests were a sham and would routinely be circumvented. I personally wasn't aware they actively tried to cheat on the dyno -- the European regulatory tests were so obviously, deliberately weak I didn't expect it was necessary. But, yeah, a lot of people would have had to know (or at least have heard the rumors) about this. Combustion process engineers, requirements engineers, programmers, testers.
- bigbugbag 9y agoThey knew. In Western Europe most of the people knew that diesel cars are major cause of pollution, that the whole shenanigans are a sham and that politics, car makers are in on it. It would be very surprising that the people actually making it happen did not know. The dead giveaway was that the favoring of diesel cars over gasoline was supposed to lower air pollution, but the before and after measurements showed a significant increase in air pollution. A EU investigation exposed a few countries governments for being aware of this and trying to delay the EU efforts to reinforce tests and controls.