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Originally Posted by XutvJet
Certain aftermarket companies and shops are breaking the law by developing software and installing parts that defeat emissions controls. That's illegal. Period. Simple as that. It doesn't matter if it's 3 cars or 4 million. These individuals (including the buyers) are breaking the law and they know it.
This whole thing stemmed originally stemmed from EPA figuring out that a majority of the automakers and engine control companies had developed and were employing emissions defeat devices on millions of engines. That is just bonkers to me to think so many companies were doing this and for such a long time. Many knew other companies were doing it and willfully decided to do the same since no one had been caught and they saw the $$$. No until some college students figured it out did EPA and CARB actually get clued into it.
Point being, you rarely can trust industry to do the right thing. Profit over most anything, in most cases.
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And this is exactly why these idiots shouldn't be making rules. They didn't understand their OWN TESTS as well as the industry, got mad that the industry figured out the test, and created a testing mode. It wasn't a defeat device, it was a case of industry being smarter than unelected bureaucrats, and the bureaucrats getting mad.
I think it proves that the EPA testing was horribly flawed, and that they can't be trusted to create an acceptable test, or reasonable requirements.
Like an elementary school basketball team getting beat by Charles Barkley in a pickup game, you can't be mad when you're outmatched, yet the EPA was.