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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: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday January 11 2019, @08:07PM
People need to go to jail for this shit no matter what side of the aisle you're on. Leftists see indiscriminate polluter and the Right sees companies flouting government regulations to gain unfair advantages in the free market.
Except that if you look at any thread on this topic here we see the left complaining about indiscriminate polluters (and fraud). And the right defending those indiscriminate polluters (and fraudsters).
I don't know how many time's I've seen the "standards are impossible to meet" nonsense even though the cars were able to meet the standards with the flip of a switch.