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Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by alexqgb on Friday September 18, 2015 @02:04PM (#10240934)
The reason California is so strict is because LA used to be synonymous with lethal levels of smog.

Used to be.

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Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by ryandrake on Friday September 18, 2015 @03:47PM (#10241626)
I find it difficult to understand how failing a car with clean emissions levels, thereby forcing it out of the state, contributes to cleaning up smog.
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Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by alexqgb on Friday September 18, 2015 @06:45PM (#10242464)
The point is that California had an exceptionally bad problem, which is why the response was so stringent.
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Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by jonknee on Friday September 18, 2015 @09:15PM (#10242916)
If it's forced out of the state the smog isn't California's problem. California's emission regulations aren't meant to clean up other states.
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Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by g10492293 on Saturday September 19, 2015 @06:47AM (#10243894)
In this case they do end up helping the other states...
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Re:Volkswagen Is Ordered to Recall Nearly 500k Vehicles Over... by plonh on Saturday September 19, 2015 @11:05PM (#10246439)
You are willfully ignoring the vastly more significant average/mode case to focus on the effect of edge cases.
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