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> And it is very unlikely that the german court system will prosecute them. Germany is cool that its citizens conducted international fraud at a scale the worl
by ythn 9y ago
> And it is very unlikely that the german court system will prosecute them.
Germany is cool that its citizens conducted international fraud at a scale the world has never seen?
- quakeguy 9y agoAnd the US is cool with "rolling coal" because....
- zimbu668 9y agoIn July 2014, the United States Environmental Protection Agency stated that the practice was illegal, as it violated the Clean Air Act which prohibits the manufacturing, sale, and installation "of a part for a motor vehicle that bypasses, defeats, or renders inoperative any emission control device [and] prohibits anyone from tampering with an emission control device on a motor vehicle by removing it or making it inoperable prior to or after the sale or delivery to the buyer." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal#Legality https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal#Legality
- icebraining 9y agoI love this bit (not a criticism, just find it amusing): "The bill was introduced by state Assemblyman Tim Eustace after a pickup truck blasted smoke at Eustace's Nissan Leaf while driving on the New Jersey Turnpike."
- johnbrodie 9y agoYou're comparing industry-wide fraud with an illegal practice that individual citizens do? I'd wager that there are easily 100,000 trucks on the road in the US for every one that can "roll coal".
- PhasmaFelis 9y ago...It's not? It's illegal here. It's not often punished just because (a) it's quite rare and (b) most police have better things to do than pulling some guy over and emissions-testing his car over something that looks like a simple engine problem. It's in the news because it's political, but it's not actually common at all.
- dozzie 9y agoWhy wouldn't it? US is cool that its agencies conducted international privacy violation at a scale world has never seen.
- revscat 9y agoI abhor this line of reasoning, and it is depressingly common, especially among partisans. "I can do illegal thing X because I believe that my political opponent did the same or similar." Is has become so common that it is a tell that the person using this justification is deeply partisan or otherwise zealous in some manner or another.
- jsemrau 9y agoNot mentioning Uber breaking every transportation law they can find.
- dom0 9y agoI don't think this statement is correct. The diesel emissions scandal is hardly a new scale in terms of international fraud — just think about banking.