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posted by martyb on Friday January 11 2019, @08:08AM   Printer-friendly
from the Copies-Everything-Including-Cheating dept.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/01/fiat-chrysler-settles-in-lawsuit-over-diesel-emissions-cheating/

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?


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  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @10:31AM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @10:31AM (#784968)

    The catalyst will be when trump declares marshmellow law and some states try, but fail, to secede syssied.

    FTFY

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  • (Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @10:36AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @10:36AM (#784969)

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    • (Score: 3, Funny) by nobu_the_bard on Friday January 11 2019, @01:47PM (1 child)

      by nobu_the_bard (6373) on Friday January 11 2019, @01:47PM (#785022)

      Does this help?

      Just curious.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:41PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:41PM (#785162)

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @10:24AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 14 2019, @10:24AM (#786395)

    Did that make everything work better?