Volkswagen and the Blame the Engineer Game

Re:Volkswagen and the Blame the Engineer Game by kuschku on Friday December 11, 2015 @12:27PM (#10718383)

Eh, the original document from WVU which the EPA used to go against VW also names evidence for several (I think 6) other manufacturers, by now, 9 are known to have done the same.

So, yes, it’s trivial to show that the EPA had the same amount of knowledge against others as they had against VW, because the original document already had that.

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Re:Volkswagen and the Blame the Engineer Game by jacquesm on Saturday December 12, 2015 @12:52AM (#10721955)

The original document from WVU detailed 3 vehicles, two by VW an one by BMW.

If you want an easy to digest article on the subject please read:

http://www.autoblog.com/2015/09/23/researcher-how-vw-got-cau...

And if you want less easy to digest material go read the actual study pdfs (they're linked in the wikipedia article on 'dieselgate' and are very interesting reading but it will take some time there are 100+ pages there).

So you are way off base with the claims in this comment.

Note that the WVU report does not state that evidence of a cheating device has been found. It was merely the catalyst (pun intended) in the whole affair causing the EPA to put a much bigger effort into the VW engine than they had up to that point and this is where the cheating device was uncovered.

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