VW/Audi
This is going to hurt the bottom line a bit! So wonder how the fix will affect their fuel mileage and used car prices? LINK The Environmental Protection Agency and California issued a notice of v...
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brulaz wrote:RinconVTR wrote:
I blame the EPA, not VW Even if they did have trick software.
If the EPA has not tested the actual tailpipe emissions of ANY of these vehicles over this entire span of years to find such a discrepancy....SHAME ON THEM. No one is at fault but the EPA for not enforcing ACTUAL emission specifications.
Software should have no bearing on EPA actual tailpipe and dyno testing. They should have their noses in every orifice...NOT every electronic plug. Let's get real EPA.
But even if the EPA did test it, the software apparently could detect that and adjust emissions downward.
This is the part I don't understand.
How can a bit of software+sensors know that an emissions test is being performed?
the emissions testing is a very precisely described test conditions dictating warm up time, accerlation rates, speeds and times. Having done SW projects, it wouldn't be that hard to turn on the emissions for one state when one encounters a certain start and run sequence or sets of conditions and off when it detects something else. For instance acceleration outside the epa test limits, speeds not presribed in the test sequence etc. Face it, very very few actual driving conditions mimic the epa test sequence.
However, if VW did that in my mind they should face very stiff criminal penalties and those that did the changes and ordered the changes should face criminal charges and end with prison terms.
