• Treczoks@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Many have been caught. Not all of them have made a big deal about it.

          You simply cannot build a compliant engine without cheating. The fight has gone to the courts to find out what kind of cheating is permissible…

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          No. Simply that Volkswagen, then another company was caught, then they went after all of them and they all admitted before they could look into each individual company.

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      Basically all of them have cheated. You needed good emission test results, but without having a miracle idea that evaded everyone else in the business you simply had no competitive results without cheating. That’s physics, and physics is a very hard and unforgiving ruler.