Volkswagen Engineer Gets Prison in Diesel Cheating Case (2017)

Re:Volkswagen Engineer Gets Prison in Diesel Cheating Case (... by ThomWilhelm3 on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:59AM (#19622243)

I feel like the designers of the test have to take more blame here. Having a test that was "just show us once and that's it" seems like a really bad test design.

Randomly testing vehicles after they've been produced should have always been part of the testing strategy. Shouldn't have been relying on a random researcher to catch them.

Would be like testing an Athlete once for steroids then never testing them again, ever.

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Re:Volkswagen Engineer Gets Prison in Diesel Cheating Case (... by pkaye on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:11AM (#19622280)

Would not have caught this. Every time the vehicle is randomly tested it would have entered cheat mode.

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Re:Volkswagen Engineer Gets Prison in Diesel Cheating Case (... by alkonaut on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:27AM (#19622331)

"Random test" means taking a production vehicle of any age, and testing it in real world conditions. Basically putting measurement devices over the exhaust and driving it on the highway, not in a lab.

It's less scientific but also so much more scientific if you expect the object you are measuring to be cheating in lab conditions - and they should be expecting that.

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Re:Volkswagen Engineer Gets Prison in Diesel Cheating Case (... by hackerpacker on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @02:21AM (#19622310)

that isn't a very random test then.

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