According to records filed in the case, Achtemeier conspired with mechanics in garages and operators of truck fleets to disable the anti-pollution software installed on diesel trucks.
Coconspirators who wanted to disable their trucks’ pollution control hardware system—a process commonly known as “deleting”—sought Achtemeier’s help to trick the truck’s software into believing the emissions control systems were still functional, a process known as “tuning.”
Monitoring software on a deleted truck will detect that the pollution control hardware is not functioning and will prevent the truck from running. Achtemeier disabled the monitoring software on his client’s trucks by connecting to laptops he had provided to various coconspirators. Some of the coconspirators would pass the laptop on to others seeking to have the anti-pollution software disabled on their trucks. Once the laptop was hooked up to the truck’s onboard computer, Achtemeier could access it from his computer and tune the software designed to slow the truck if the pollution control device was missing or malfunctioning. Achtemeier could “tune” trucks remotely, which enabled him to maximize his environmental impact and personal profit.
Diesel engines can be tuned to be 10% more efficient ie better engine performance and better fuel economy if u modify the engine tuning to ignore the environmental tuning requirements that have been forced upon the manufacturers.
as much as this guy sounds like an asshole should ownership not mean u can modify your own property as u see fit?
Sure, as long as you pipe the exhaust directly into your lungs, and not anyone else’s nor the environment.
Hey im not saying its a good thing to do just that this is the cost of personal liberty and property ownership.
Your personal liberty to emit pollution does not supersede my personal liberty to be able to breathe.
What about the air on my personal property that you are destroying?
Not when your actions affect others, no.
That’s kind of what emission standards are, is rules of that. You can modify your legally purchased firearm as you see fit, but if your modifications make it shoot in random directions, you can’t use it in a shooting range.
You can modify it how you see fit, but it’s not street legal unless you fit emissions standards