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And every penny of it will be passed down to the consumer as is the corporate way. GM ignition switch is a good example.
Wow... just wow. VW pulled a Samsung.
This isn't exaggeration or putting your product in the best light. This is blatant fraud. I would expect criminal prosecution for something like this.
Pulling a Samsung? What does that even mean?
$18B isn't exactly a slap on the wrist.
GM keeps silent about faults that kill people and gets off with a couple of hundred millions in fines. VW fudges emissions tests and is supposed to be fined billions. Funny how so many foreign companies get slapped with record fines by the US. That's just happens by accident, for sure. For any such shakedown US companies abroad should be slapped with comparable fines.
Samsung was caught cheating on benchmarks - the phone would detect that a benchmark was running and overclock and hold a higher clock frequency in order to show a better benchmark result.
Theyre (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks
Samsung was caught cheating on benchmarks - the phone would detect that a benchmark was running and overclock and hold a higher clock frequency in order to show a better benchmark result.
Theyre (Almost) All Dirty: The State of Cheating in Android Benchmarks
Doesn't this discovery mean Volkswagen will also need to pay a penalty for failing to meet the required fuel efficiency requirements?
Does this mean in addition to the damages they will be deemed to be responsible for, they also need to pay for each credit they failed to earn or acquire?
Maybe this is the beginning of what Jerry Brown meant when he said the following: (See below video)
It's a bit terrifying this video only has 159 views. The only thing more terrifying, is the comment section.
Every person who cares about Climate Change (which should include everyone on this forum) should watch this video!
Senate bill 350 shut down, Jerry Brown admits he will pursue his agenda through C.A.R.B. regulation - YouTube
Graphics card manufacturers are known to do it as well. But having a slightly slower graphics card isn't likely to cause smog.
...Technical development leader Thorsten Duesterdiek said it meant “putting a lot of money, a lot of effort in fulfilling the first forty, fifty seconds” of the emissions test...
(They appear to refer to the "Motor Vehicle Emissions Group" test cycle as "the entire operating time", in other words a lowered emissions state designed only for cases where the engine is being tested.)...The conversion of the nitrogen oxides begins earlier, leading to an increase in the rate of nitrogen-oxide removal over the entire operating time (e.g., an MVEG test cycle). The carbamide necessary for the regeneration is injected into the exhaust branch upstream of the SCR catalytic converter...
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Cycle beating
For the emission standards to deliver real emission reductions it is crucial to use a test cycle that reflects real-world driving style. However the fixed speeds, gear shift points and accelerations of the NEDC offer possibilities for manufacturers to engage in what was called 'cycle beating' to optimise engine emission performance to the corresponding operating points of the test cycle, while emissions from typical driving conditions would be much higher than expected, undermining the standards and public health.[SUP][6][/SUP] In one particular instance, research from two German technology institutes found that for diesel cars no 'real' NOx reductions have been achieved after 13 years of stricter standards.[SUP][9]...[/SUP]
In practice real world emissions can be substantially higher. In this paper it turned out that a model year 2000 vehicle, which already complied with EURO 4 limits, may reach CO and NOx emissions that may be up to 10 times higher in real traffic com-pared to the NEDC cycle.
In the GM case, the NHTSA (US government's safety organization) also was partly to blame. They failed to spot the issue even though they had the data to do so (there was a trend).GM keeps silent about faults that kill people and gets off with a couple of hundred millions in fines. VW fudges emissions tests and is supposed to be fined billions. Funny how so many foreign companies get slapped with record fines by the US. That's just happens by accident, for sure. For any such shakedown US companies abroad should be slapped with comparable fines.
With the benefit of hindsight, web searches turn up some 'interesting' stuff:
Volkswagen Unveils its New EA288 TDI Engine - Automobile Magazine
http://patents.justia.com/patent/20080041041
(They appear to refer to the "Motor Vehicle Emissions Group" test cycle as "the entire operating time", in other words a lowered emissions state designed only for cases where the engine is being tested.)
New European Driving Cycle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://www.theicct.org/sites/default/files/publications/ICCT_NOx-control-tech_09032015.pdf
https://www.iea.org/media/workshops/2013/gfeilabelling/09.IEAWorkshop_ADAC_greenscoring_EN.pdf
http://www.researchgate.net/publication/248319865_Comparison_of_on-road_emissions_with_emissions_measured_on_chassis_dynamometer_test_cycles._Transp_Res_Part_D_Transp_Environ
Along with the fines, I wonder if individuals will sue them based on contracting lung diseases and such.