Wouldn't be surprised if he's the only one to get prison time. The product managers / program managers who fed him the orders/specs are obviously not responsible. **eye roll**
VW Engineer sentenced to 40 months in prison for Dieselgate
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Wouldn't be surprised if he's the only one to get prison time. The product managers / program managers who fed him the orders/specs are obviously not responsible. **eye roll**
He's lucky only uppity white people buy VWs. If it were a car marketed to minorities he'd be a racist xenophobe.
The headline makes you think it was a summer intern, tricked into writing the function that cheated the test. This was a 60+ year old, that was in charge of the entire emissions engineering department. He attended all the regulatory meetings with the EPA and lied to them directly.
Does this qualify as fake news?
Does this qualify as fake news?
read this the other day, interesting new tech.https://www.extremetech.com/extreme...-diesel-engine-runs-gasoline?source=flipboard
If that ever hits production, there is no way I'd touch that. You're talking about a gasoline engine that doesn't avoid knock, in fact it's designed to run on it.
My HS chemistry/physics teacher was a chemical/mechanical engineer at GM in the late 80s and early 90s, when the Government started to impose really strict fuel efficiency and emissions standards. He said pretty much all focus was behind increasing air/fuel ratio (AFR), while lowering NOx emissions. Because as you increase operating temps in the combustion chamber NOx was just a natural side effect and the only way to lower temps was to lower the compression ratio or decrease the AFR.
Diesel engines have battled NOx emissions too, maybe the same solutions would work for this, but I'm still not a fan of an engine designed to knock. Gasoline has a much faster burn rate than diesel, don't know how they'll make this thing remotely reliable.
Honors' first car was a VW, that should tell you everything you need to know
Licensed, professional engineers can be held accountable by the state, irrespective of their bosses, product managers, etc... They are so licensed to serve the public trust for a reason ... to stop this from happening, before it happens, as his freedom is more important than his job.
A very large (250,000 member), global, professional, certifying, non-profit IT organization I work with is currently engaging several governments to start offering a similar avenue for certified members to be held accountable. For certain, member benefits, there will be a code of ethics certified members will have to agree to. We hope we'll be the first to offer such, and start to see a major change in how corporations handle IT security and governance.
A very large (250,000 member), global, professional, certifying, non-profit IT organization I work with is currently engaging several governments to start offering a similar avenue for certified members to be held accountable. For certain, member benefits, there will be a code of ethics certified members will have to agree to. We hope we'll be the first to offer such, and start to see a major change in how corporations handle IT security and governance.
