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Once you have the necessary portable emissions testing equipment, how much work is it to test a vehicle? I've been wondering why the researchers at WVU who fou
by thinkling 9y ago
Once you have the necessary portable emissions testing equipment, how much work is it to test a vehicle?
I've been wondering why the researchers at WVU who found the VW cheating have not gone on to test a larger set of vehicles to see who else is cheating.
- jessaustin 9y agoDo we know the researchers haven't tested other vehicles? If VW were cheating to a greater degree than other manufacturers, that might explain why they were the first to be caught.
- thinkling 9y agoYes, they weren't doing this on their own initiative, they had a contract to test 4 specific vehicles of which 3 were VW TDIs, I think. They didn't initially think they'd found cheating, and it took a year or two for CARB to get interested and things to develop. You'd think someone would fund broader testing...