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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: 2) by LoRdTAW on Wednesday September 14 2016, @04:04PM
While your mods might not produce these stupid clouds, they are certainly against the law and you can have your truck impounded depending on the local jurisdiction.
Most people who live in the deep north have cold weather prep packages specked at time of order. These include things like tank and block heaters as well as other cold weather add-ons. Many smart owners also choose to plug them in and/or keep them in a garage that is kept a little above freezing. Have you considered any of those things when you bought your truck?
The half hour of regen and fuel is a PITA. You just have to live with it. As for the pollutants, the DPF is there to remove the particulate matter or soot from the exhaust stream. It poses an immediate inhalation health hazard. It has been linked to asthma and other respiratory diseases. Do a search for 'diesel particulate asthma'. You will find plenty of research. NOx, controlled by the SCR system forms smog, acid rain and particulate matter. A quick search of 'NOx health hazards' will again give you information. This isn't hard.
So? Sounds like a cop out statement to me. "Well nature does it all the time so why cant we?" It's a very selfish, fuck everyone attitude. And again, this is about particulate matter and NOx.
Again, NOx and Particulate matter.
And you just sound like a clueless, selfish asshole to me. And by clueless, I mean it doesn't even sound like you properly specked your truck for your geographic location.
As a whole, people should be concerned about long term health effects of any process they are involved in. Your single truck might not sound like much pollution but multiply that times millions of diesel engines all around the world in everything from small pumps, compressors and generators to locomotives and container ships. If everyone cooperates, then things are improved for EVERYONE. Learn to sacrifice and compromise instead of being a whiny selfish prick.
And side note: The coal rollers purposefully mod their engines to excessively smoke for show. Some even purposefully lay down clouds so thick, traffic behind them has to stop as they cant see past the smoke screen. It's a total dick, asshole, fuck head move. Damn right they deserve a beating for having that mentality.