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posted by janrinok on Tuesday September 13 2016, @03:45PM   Printer-friendly
from the bunch-of-crooks dept.

El Reg reports

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: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 13 2016, @06:22PM

    by LoRdTAW (3755) on Tuesday September 13 2016, @06:22PM (#401427) Journal

    What are you talking about?

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