GM accused of installing devices in diesel trucks to beat emissions tests

Re:GM accused of installing devices in diesel trucks to beat... by ChuckMcM on Thursday May 25, 2017 @03:37PM (#14419560)

This is the important bit:

   > ... it is very easy to end up with regulations that
   > when taken together are not feasible.

I had a discussion with a member of the "Bay Area Air Quality Management Board" (not a fan) about this very issue. I asked, "How do you know whether or not what you're trying to achieve is possible?" Their answer was "Well if it isn't possible someone will tell us."

It is a classic prisoner's dilemma problem. If everyone is honest, you make cars that are good for the environment but lack the performance, if one can "defect" while looking like they haven't (aka they cheat) they take all the money.

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Re:GM accused of installing devices in diesel trucks to beat... by JKCalhoun on Thursday May 25, 2017 @05:16PM (#14420199)

> if one can "defect" while looking like they haven't (aka they cheat) they take all the money.

And yet they get caught (and always will) and lose the long game.

Sayonara, VW.....

Big corporations used to have bean-counters that calculated the cost of getting caught and they cheated only when the risk vs. damages had a cost upside.

Corporations now just don't appear to give a flying fuck about what lands in the lap of the next CEO. They'll get their golden parachute, right?

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