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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: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 12 2019, @01:26PM
I'd care if the regulation were worth enforcing. Instead we see here the consequences of dumb laws and regulations - namely, that they don't get enforced properly by the regulators. Personally, I think there's more important things to do with regulation that worrying about what dumb regulations Volkswagen and Chrysler are "picking and choosing". As to "adjudication", we could always just completely ignore these abuses from businesses both large and small, to be fair.
I used to think that rigorous enforcement of stupid regulations would help eliminate them. I don't believe that anymore - there's way too much stuff that's been kicking around for half a century or more. At this point, selective enforcement of regulation is already the saner though perhaps undemocratic approach.