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In absolute values, not relative per ton of cargo or compared to other modes of transport. Maybe I wasn't clear enough, for that I'm sorry. I do support trains
by Yizahi 3y ago
In absolute values, not relative per ton of cargo or compared to other modes of transport. Maybe I wasn't clear enough, for that I'm sorry. I do support trains everywhere and think they are the best land transport we have by far. I was merely thinking that a diesel engine is a diesel, even if a train vendor fudge the emissions somehow (hence the reference to the Volkswagen dieselgate, I thought it meant) it wouldn't matter much on the planetary scale. Thus not particularly interesting.
But instead this was all about electronics and malicious locks, which wasn't apparent from the headline.
- aftbit 3y agoIMO this is really what Dieselgate was about. Not specifically fudging the emissions, but hiding secret code to do so during specific test profiles, then lying about it afterwards. Analogously, these trains hid secret code to disable them after being taken to certain locations.