The NOx specs weren't impossible to meet; VW cheated to save money and improve performance.
It didn't work. How could they be so stupid to assume that they'd never get caught? Maybe they knew that they wouldn't get caught in europe. [1]
Then it's a good thing that we have prisons.
[1] when my wife lived in Germany, she drove some old beater that wouldn't pass the safety inspections. A friend told her how to pass: leave a bottle of Jim Beam on the back seat.
Woss this? Another one whose approach is that if it isn't black, it must be white? That's a piss-poor way of arguing, and we have our own s******ds polluting uk.d-i-y who take this sort of line, we don't need furriners from another ng adopting the same approach, thank you very much.
And I don't recall saying that cheating is OK. If the gumment specifies the test outcome, it should be also thinking about how the system can be gamed, otherwise it's not doing the job we pay them to do. Orrrite?
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It's not illegal? People don't go to prison for such thing? They do in the US.
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