Yup. It doesn't even require excessive malfeasance. Once you are in the zone of just slightly gaming the system at the edges and then you make the jump to decid

Yup. It doesn't even require excessive malfeasance. Once you are in the zone of just slightly gaming the system at the edges and then you make the jump to deciding to build that gaming the system into the software you're screwed. Because the problem is that once you start down that path it is actually shockingly easy to create wildly divergent performance and emissions characteristics. Such is the power of software control of an engine. And then you are faced with the problem of what to do next, do you pull it back or do you go for broke to maximize quarterly profits while assuming regulatory agencies won't find out? You can guess which option our current business environment has preferentially selected for.