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[–]CTZN50 points
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I expect all that's happened is VW has made sure the regen cycle will not occur during the EPA test, which would cause random erroneous test failure relative to the car's actual average emissions.
But it is kinda neat to drive a car that employs engineers who are clever enough to pull off this hack. I just wish I knew which car companies were clever enough to do this AND get away with it...
They got away with it for six years which, considering there are sneaky sons of bitches who are testing tailpipe emissions for some reason, is a pretty good run. You'd probably have to know who's trying to test your emissions and how they're going about it to do better.
With newer cars they just plug in to the car and read it's data on emissions and do a gas cap pressure test I'm pretty sure. That's how it was in Atlanta.
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[–] 404_SLEEP_NOT_FOUND 0 points 4 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago
See this is why companies hate whistle blowers. If they had just kept their mouth shut, this would have never happened.
[–] CTZN5 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago (edited ago)
I expect all that's happened is VW has made sure the regen cycle will not occur during the EPA test, which would cause random erroneous test failure relative to the car's actual average emissions.
More on this here https://twitter.com/CTZN5/status/645120962606661632
edit: Followup here [https://twitter.com/CTZN5/status/645270889341153281] after I'd read the WVU study that triggered the EPA investigation.
[–] revjim 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I know pollution is bad, yada yada.
But it is kinda neat to drive a car that employs engineers who are clever enough to pull off this hack. I just wish I knew which car companies were clever enough to do this AND get away with it...
[–] ShinyVoater 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
They got away with it for six years which, considering there are sneaky sons of bitches who are testing tailpipe emissions for some reason, is a pretty good run. You'd probably have to know who's trying to test your emissions and how they're going about it to do better.
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[–] openionatedgent 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
With newer cars they just plug in to the car and read it's data on emissions and do a gas cap pressure test I'm pretty sure. That's how it was in Atlanta.
[–] moneyshift ago
Can't read the article because regwall but since when is the White House the EPA's errand boy?
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[–] sumguy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
I'm right there with you... everything about this smacks of bullshit to my bullshit meter.
Now, if we're talking end user, d'uh.. of course that's removed/disabled and then installed/enabled only for emissions (for those that have it).
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[–] 2506155? ago
According to multiple articles VW has admitted to it.