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"Do a bad thing" is a pretty major understatement of the degree of criminality we're talking about here. Over-representing the capabilities of Autopilot is a to
by akanet 8y ago
"Do a bad thing" is a pretty major understatement of the degree of criminality we're talking about here. Over-representing the capabilities of Autopilot is a totally different thing that embedding a defeat device to defraud every national regulatory agency.
- xedeon 8y ago> embedding a defeat device to defraud every national regulatory agency. Cite this claim.
- UncleEntity 8y ago> Cite this claim. It is, literally, a large portion of TFA.
- blattimwind 8y agoIf you excluded every manufacturer that did this at some point, you're pretty much only left with Tesla and probably some other smaller new EV companies.
- hndamien 8y agoThis speaks volumes.
- blattimwind 8y ago... and I wouldn't be all that sure that none of the EV folks aren't cheating on their range tests ...
- natch 8y ago>Over-representing the capabilities of Autopilot is a totally different thing Citation needed. They didn’t do that.
- freeflight 8y agoAs convenient as it might be to burn VW at the stake for this as the "sacrificial lamb", that misses the point. Because VW ain't the only ones who engage in these kinds of tactics, by now it seems like it's some kind of "open industry secret" how manufacturers try to get the best measuring results during environmental testing for those good ratings, which directly translates to good marketing.