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Re:Four more carmakers join diesel emissions row by grecy on Saturday October 10, 2015 @09:40AM (#10365474)
I agree. It's wildly accepted the winner in most sports contents is the one the pushes the rules the hardest - i.e. push the line as hard as possible, without "breaking" the rules.

I've not read the EPA rules, but I'm sure it says something like x amount of y gas under whatever conditions.

At the end of the day, VW meets those rules.

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Re:Four more carmakers join diesel emissions row by zardo on Saturday October 10, 2015 @11:00AM (#10365675)
At the end of the day, VW meets those rules.

They definitely didn't. EPA didn't just make up the term "defeat device" last month. It's in the regulation that VW was supposed to comply with.

The EPA rules also contain a NTE "not-to-exceed" limit, about 2.5x the test limit. They don't have much of an enforcement budget, so testing is pretty rare, but if the car exceeds the NTE limit, the manufacturer has to issue a recall to fix it.

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