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The US Justice Department (DOJ) on Thursday announced a $305 million civil settlement between Fiat Chrysler and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in a lawsuit over illegal software found on certain diesel Dodge Ram models and diesel Jeep Grand Cherokee models.
[...] The settlement comes two years after the EPA accused Fiat Chrysler of installing undisclosed and illegal software on 104,000 vehicles, including 3.0L diesel Dodge Ram 1500 trucks and diesel Jeep Grand Cherokees between model years 2014 and 2016. The EPA claimed the software would sense when the vehicle was being tested under laboratory conditions and implement the full emissions control system so that the car could pass the EPA's emissions tests.
I guess the Volkswagen cheating was considered a feature by the Chrysler engineers, and they were just copying what the customers demanded?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @08:45AM (9 children)
But are you ready to pay $100,000 for a mid-range car that is 100% compliant to a random bureaucrat's demands? Fight for clean air is good and all, but the country needs to move around at reasonable cost, or else there will be nobody left to appreciate the air. Currently entities like CARB are not constrained, they are free to write any requirements they want, with no regard to what cost they burden the society with.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @09:00AM (8 children)
Of course not and most other people wouldn't either. Fortunately that isn't a problem and in most countries never will be. In the situation at hand, there were millions of compliant cars on the roads from other manufactures with normal price tags and those other manufacturers still managed to sell cars and make money. This wasn't a question of complying and making cars unaffordable, this was a willful criminal act intended to artificially increase market share at the expense of the honest patsies.
Let them try. Create crazy unaffordable cars by mandate in the state of California. Please. Then behold the site of liberals/leftists/conservatives/alt-right/libertarians/breatharians and everything embrace in kinship and brotherhood as they literally to the voting booth to vote the incumbents out. Matter of fact I welcome it. We could use a catalyst to actually drain the swamp. The voter backlash would be so intense and unified it could herald new political parties. Textbooks a hundred years hence would devote entire chapters to the great Bear state purge of 2020.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @09:43AM (7 children)
The catalyst will be when trump declares marshmellow law and some states try, but fail, to secede.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @10:31AM (5 children)
FTFY
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @10:36AM (3 children)
(Score: 3, Funny) by nobu_the_bard on Friday January 11 2019, @01:47PM (1 child)
Does this help?Just curious.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:41PM
apparently not
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @07:44PM
can we turn it off?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @10:24AM
Did that make everything work better?
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday January 11 2019, @12:08PM
Are you implying that Big Hands Donald has Erectile Dysfunction?
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