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Surprising that Volkswagen and Boeing can be under scrutiny and pay massive fines but this EvilCorp gets a pass at everything.

• KennyBlanken 5y ago
  The surprising (or not so surprising) thing about VW was that anyone who works in ECU tuning can tell you that a)the emissions cheating has been going on for decades and b)everyone has been doing it. They can pop open the assembly language for the ECU and said "and here's where it detects a signal from the ABS controller that only two wheels are being driven, and here's the data table of mixture and timing values it switches to." It was also pretty absurd given that the US used to exempt "trucks" (including SUVs and even "crossovers") from passenger car emissions standards. This was (decades ago) to make things easier for farmers, supposedly, by sparing them the cost of emissions control equipment on their farm trucks. But the auto industry sold the government on the concept that what amounted to a jacked up station wagon car on bigger tires somehow didn't need to meet the same emissions standards as a passenger car, so they got to make more powerful engines with less emissions controls, and this is part of the reason we have SUVs everywhere. I've been told by multiple Ford superduty owners that they rip out the urea injection and diesel particulate filter systems because "they're unreliable" and "it's such a pain keeping the DPF fluid topped off" and "it hurts performance." You can buy DPF in damn near any gas station that sells diesel, any auto parts store, any big-box retailer, any truck stop...and you get a warning well before the tank runs dry.