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Former engineer James Robert Liang took a plea deal with the US federal government to cooperate with its ongoing investigation of how the German car maker cheated American emissions tests and passed off its "clean diesel" engines as meeting state and government clean air standards.
While VW executives have claimed that the use of a defeat device to artificially limit emissions during tests was the work of a "couple of software engineers", Liang's plea deal shows that the conspiracy dates back roughly a decade and has roots in the team that designed the engines.
In other words, Liang claims the design team was in on it, not just a couple of bad apples.
Liang told the government that in 2006, engineers knew the EA 189 diesel engine would not be able to meet clean air emission standards on its own. Rather than attempt to redesign the engine, he and other members of the design team deliberately cheated the testing system.
[...] He said that the device was used to get the clean air certification on VW's "clean diesel" models from 2009 to 2016, and that the group continued to lie about the emissions output of the engines even after the US government began its investigation.
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(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 13 2016, @06:07PM
I hate to break it to you, but it's looking more like it was just boring schizophrenia. (Articles mention poison, but I think that's peripheral to what happened outside of the internal injuries to the kid).
The dad admitted that schizophrenia runs in the family and that the kid had been acting weird prior to that night. This is what you Americans get because you have a system where people are trained to just ride things out and hope nothing bad happens. Because mental health is a fucking moral issue to you assholes. That's right, what happened was entirely preventable if the parents hadn't been afraid of the cost of getting their son evaluated and what a schizophrenia diagnosis would mean to "their image." I'll bet they're regretting that now!
You are beyond fucked, USA. I'll enjoy watching you descend into being a 3rd world hellhole. But hey, plenty of people who post here are perfectly happy with moralizing shit that only make sense to moralize in a 3rd world hellhole.