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Good. I still refuse to consider VW cars over this. Maybe once everyone has received their prison sentences, I'll reconsider.
It wasn't just VW. It was like a dozen of the major brands all doing it in some way or another.
E.g BMW was involved as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal
You are genuinely the first other person I've ever seen online who seems aware that this was an industry-wide thing, not a VW thing.
You barely saw it in the news compared to VW as well. Even if an article would bring it up, it'd usually be headlines with VW in some way or another.
It's a shame so many of our choices for cars out there are run by bad people at the top 😞
Dont know much about anything but it would not surprise me if it was some Bosch engineers who originaally hinted all those engineers of what could be done with their systems if they just listen some states of other car systems. Afterall, it’s their injection systems etc. almost every diesel manuf used/uses.
That wouldn't even need to be malicious, but it definitely could be.
I could see a selling point being, oh ya you can monitor the system and then adjust things for more power, but it'll be dirtier.
And then at that point it's up to the OEM to keep it within regulations, but they could offer different power modes within limits.
Then everyone's like oh this would make cheating so easy!
What "ethical" car brand do you buy then?