More VW cheatware 'found'

Maybe not. People thought that last time, but now there's this new transgression. You'd be taking a bet that this is the last bit of dodgy design lurking in VW's portfolio...

It will pass the test. That's the problem. It'll pass the test and two minutes later start polluting heavily.

I think you'll find the problem is that the cars do pass emissions. Rather a lot of emissions, it seems . . .

I read it as from "start-up" (i.e. key start). Most emissions tests I've been through in 4 states over the years have you turn off the engine until the test equipment is connected. Then again, State test only take a few minutes. Maybe this is the EPA test that's 20 minutes long?

I think the software is a little more nifty than just relying on a timer... I'm pretty sure whoever wrote the software first took a good look at the regulations he wanted to cheat.

"That of course is a variable amount of time"

A car that knows the time, and the temperature wouldn't struggle with this. Once up to temperature, timer resets to 0:00.. then the 20 minutes start?

Give drivers a Blunt Machete experience to remember.

'give Customer's the performance they demand'

In the UK, we now a proliferation of new 24/7 Hadecs 3 'Safety' (Speed) Cameras - one camera covering all 4 lanes acting as a 'Blunt Machete' at all times, scalping the heads of the 'unaware driver' if they even decide to even do 5 miles an hour above the speed of the normal traffic on our Motorways, which sits around 75-76mph when its free flowing (which isn't often, so someone decided that if it ever is, would be a good way of making £100)

Its seems the power's that be have decided that given we can't stop real blunt machetes been used by crazed people, or lorry drivers playing iPads at the wheel or driving over people.

The next best thing to keep us 'safe' is to spend vast amounts of time and resources building a network of camera systems (paid for by £100 fines), to fuck off every high mileage driver in the UK by getting them to waste the few hours they do have free between work, doing shitty paperwork, attending a course listening to a monotone blurb on the dangers of this extra 5 mile per hour, that hasn't yet done me any harm in 25 years of driving, upto now.

You have to listen to this blurb, thinking - if they actually want drivers to drive at 70mph past the Hadecs 3 camera, they could actually turn on the Gantry sign to show the 70mph National speed limit, or paint the Gantry Bright Yellow or the Camera yellow - but no, that too much fucking effort for the Highways Agency, better to use the Blunt Machete method, send a ticket for your lapse in judgement at this crucial 'Motorway Blackspot', your speed lapse been seen as an absolute danger every minute of the day.

Add to the fact, they are to tiny (show box sized) and painted grey (even the few that are painted yellow, aren't exactly visible from a distance).

Now if there wasn't the incentive to make a £100 a pop to pay for all this head scalping, they would (of course) still be doing this for my 'safety', because I need to aware of what it feels like to be attacked by a blunt machete, when I'm driving normal traffic speeds.

If VW are needing a new Spin Doctor I think you just got the job.

This is all about profit and fuck all about emissions. Re-develop a whole new Engine, or fudge the engine management software, we know the winner in that one, everytime.

The idea though its only VW is the biggest con against the paying public here.

You could pick apart a range of cars with deceptively low/similar CO2 levels, for the size of vehicle/performance charts, and I'd bet you'd find the same incriminating dirt. Its pretty obvious a deal has been done in secret with other motor manufacturers to get their house in order, and quickly.

VW are just the headline Patsy in this scandal.