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No, it's not typical, because you don't see huge numbers of people defending VW's emissions fraud.
by estearum 1y ago
No, it's not typical, because you don't see huge numbers of people defending VW's emissions fraud.
- SoftTalker 1y agoI don't defend it but the specifics never bothered me. They cheated because their cars didn't meet new emissions standards. They were fine by the standards of the year before. So a bureaucracy just declared that a legal level of emissions was now illegal. In my mind it's like suddenly declaring that blue cars are illegal, and they made a color-shifting car that is blue except when the authorities are looking at it. It is wrong in the sense that it is normalizion of deviance, however. We live in a society and if we don't like a law or regulation the correct response is to get it legally changed, not to ignore it and cheat.
- estearum 1y agoI didn't say you are defending it. I'm saying that "companies do bad things sometimes" is not a full description of the Tesla phenomenon that people take issue with.
- dahinds 1y ago> They cheated because their cars didn't meet new emissions standards. They were fine by the standards of the year before. > So a bureaucracy just declared that a legal level of emissions was now illegal. That is not at all what happened and not how emissions standards are deployed. The EPA's Tier 2 standards were finalized in 2000 to phase in during the 2004-2008 model years [1]. [1] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/02/10/00-19/control-of-air-pollution-from-new-motor-vehicles-tier-2-motor-vehicle-emissions-standards-and https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/02/10/00-19/c...
- triceratops 1y ago> They cheated because their cars didn't meet new emissions standards Anything beyond the first two words in that sentence is irrelevant.