Diesel cars are the worst polluters, as "Dieselgate" and other scandals have recently shown. They pollute 10x more than buses, and have been enabled by ECUs cre

Diesel cars are the worst polluters, as "Dieselgate" and other scandals have recently shown. They pollute 10x more than buses, and have been enabled by ECUs created by Bosch. > The actual programmer & designer of the software is the supplier of the engine control units (ECUs), in most cases Bosch. The software that they supply actually already contains these cheating routines. These routines are delivered as a part of the software packages, and can be turned on/off with some flags. It is up to the auto company how to set these flags. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286697 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17286697