Cummins pickup truck engines systematically tricked air pollution controls, feds say

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Cummins pickup truck engines systematically tricked air pollution controls, feds say
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The shocking part about this is that they installed a dedicated defeat device and expected no one to notice. Come on guys, cars are software, if you want to end run the emissions standards just write more creative code.

that's literally what vw did

Yes, but poorly. And even then it took at least 8 years to get caught. With a little creative thinking in the software design, there’s little chance another attempt would ever be discovered.