Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engineers

Re:Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engin... by fnordfnordfnord on Monday October 05, 2015 @06:02PM (#10335323)

>There are plenty of ways that upper management can stay in the dark.

If they knew about it, they were wrong. If the didn't know about it, they were derelict/incompetent in their duty to supervise, AKA, wrong.

> In the case of Deepwater Horizon, BP didn't make the decisions that lead to the blowout, but created excessive pressure for cost-cutting.

Oil drilling operations are very much different from any other company structure/hierarchy you are probably familiar with. BP's "Company Man" (Jobsite supervisor) made those decisions and BP gets to own the consequences. BP also made a lot of other poor decisions along the way, and afterward, which are also their responsibility. None of the parties comes out of the DWH disaster looking good, but BP gets primary responsibility, and they earned it.

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Re:Volkswagen Emissions Investigation Zeroes in on Two Engin... by scott_s on Monday October 05, 2015 @06:16PM (#10335405)

I think you're approaching this from a justice angle: who is responsible, who should pay. I think akamaka is approaching this from a system perspective: what enabled this to happen, what can we change to avoid it?

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