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Common Dreams reports:
In a slick protest and righteous reminder that Volkswagen has yet to leave behind its Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal, British activist and comedian Simon Brodkin sabotaged a VW presentation at the Geneva Motor Show Tuesday. As marketing chief Juergen Stackmann sang the praises of their new electrically powered Up! models, Brodkin ambled [1] onto the stage in VW-branded overalls, wielding a wrench and prop [labeled] "cheat box", and began climbing under the car to "fix it". "It's okay, I have the new cheat box", he calmly explained to the bewildered Stackmann. "No one's going to find out about this one."
[...] As Stackmann tried to haul him out from under the car--"It doesn't need a repair, it's a perfect car"--Brodkin referenced VW's [lying, disgraced] CEO with, "Mr. Müller says it's okay as long as no one finds out."
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(Score: 0, Troll) by Techwolf on Thursday March 03 2016, @04:51PM
Did VW really cheat or did they took advantage of a flawed test and actully pollucted less due to increased mileage?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Immerman on Thursday March 03 2016, @07:00PM
They specifically designed hardware to behave abnormally when it was being tested in order to pass the legally mandated tests.
What would you call it?
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 03 2016, @07:25PM
They specifically designed hardware to behave abnormally when it was being tested in order to pass the legally mandated tests.
Which is explicitly prohibited by relevant regulations...
(Score: 3, Informative) by Grishnakh on Thursday March 03 2016, @08:18PM
No, they polluted far, far more. You're making the mistaken assumption that pollution scales linearly with fuel burned, which is completely wrong. For CO2, it's correct: that indeed is directly proportional to how much fuel you burn, so 15% better fuel economy means that much less CO2 pollution. The problem with diesel engines isn't CO2, it's nitrous oxides, which are really bad because they create smog (CO2 is mainly benign though too much of it accelerates global warming; smog is a far more localized and acute problem for human health). So these VW engines were producing far, far more NOx pollution than they were supposed to, and the slightly increased fuel economy was nowhere near enough to offset that.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 04 2016, @07:39AM
The problem with diesel engines isn't CO2, it's nitrous oxides
That and particles, which are really dangerous for your health. Apparently you can get either one down but getting both down is a challenge...
(Score: 1) by anubi on Friday March 04 2016, @10:58AM
Yeh... run rich, you emit lots of unburned fuel... hydrocarbons... CO. - but hardly no NOx, You don't have enough oxygen around to make any.
Run lean, you emit lots of NOx - but hardly any unburned hydrocarbons, you have so much oxygen around that any hydrocarbon around gets hitched.
But run in the "sweet spot", you emit BOTH!
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