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Chrysler Settles for Fuel Emissions Cheating

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @02:41PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @02:41PM (#785038)

    You have no idea what free market means:

    In economics, a free market is a system in which the prices for goods and services are determined by the open market and by consumers. In a free market the laws and forces of supply and demand are free from any intervention by a government, or by other authority. Proponents of the concept of free market contrast it with a regulated market, in which a government intervenes in supply and demand through various methods — such as tariffs — used to restrict trade and to protect the local economy. In an idealized free-market economy, prices for goods and services are set freely by the forces of supply and demand and are allowed to reach their point of equilibrium without intervention by government policy.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market [wikipedia.org]

    I really wonder sometimes what percent of people even understamd ehat capitalism entails; The US is not a capitalist country... not even close. The economic system im the US is a form of crony-socialism.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @03:49PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @03:49PM (#785071)

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market
    I really wonder sometimes what percent of people even understamd ehat capitalism entails; The US is not a capitalist country... not even close. The economic system im the US is a form of crony-socialism.

    Effort free contradiction and a wikipedia link. You posted less than nothing. I could just detail your spelling errors and be more germane to the discussion.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 11 2019, @06:38PM (#785160)

      Like I asked, I just want to know where do came from? Where did you learn the meaning of "free market"? I'm not interested in debating with you...