VOLKSWAGEN EMISSIONS SCANDAL - Toxic diesels fool emissions. OOPS - now GM too (Nov 2015)!

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via YouTube Capture Tuesday 22nd September 2015. UPDATE 23rd November 2015 - ANOTHER MANUFACTURER CAUGHT OUT. BBC Panorama program, has investigated, and no British laboratory wanted to help them either. The Czech lab they went to, found yes, the VW was cheating but ALSO an Opel (read Vauxhall or General Motors) behaved differently during test conditions too! The Opel (GM/Vauxhall) Zafira hit 3 times the 2015 European emissions permitted for Nitrous Oxides. The manufacturer was mealy-mouthed about it, but basically, the engine behaves well under the test conditions and promptly churns out toxins when the vehicle goes outside the test conditions. THAT IS A 'DEFEAT' DEVICE THE SAME SOFTWARE TRICK AS VW in anybody's language! The others will be the same - they're all at it, as stated in the video. Original piece continues: All these cars that VW are being forced to recall due to this Diesel emissions scandal - they are going to come back broken. You know this, if you ever had a mechanic wink at you during emissions testing, as he re-tunes your motor saying 'it's ok, I'll put it back to proper tune after it passes emissions'. That is why it is safe to predict the recall work will be undone. The governments need to come to a transitional agreement, accept the ICE motor is fundamentally rubbish - no really it's so quaint and I love mine - and move electric motors in right, left and centre literally into motor vehicles, and reduce toxins that way. Of course, the recall work can be one of two jobs: either the software component (software code or module) that figures a test is being made can be made inactive; OR the car is made to run ALL THE TIME so it tries to match the 'special' clean output as if in a test. The first, means the cars in general, will run as before - but NONE will ever 'test' well ever again - bad enough to no longer conform/be illegal? The second, is going to be impossible for the driver to live with. Either way, now we KNOW what's happened, I question the point of a recall. If you have a - pardon me - crap mechanic, he lets you drive away from emissions tuning, find your car is going rubbish for weeks, usually stalling as you pull away from a standstill is the thing, then you eventually have the gumption to return to complain. That's when you are told about the whole emissions testing 'lie' we have all bought into. Heck, regarding CO2, it has been around since the 1980's !!! Any good mechanic knows - you can have a clean (low emissions) car or a powerful car - but having both is almost impossible. The classic case is when the vehicles are idling - many many times you hear of the mechanic setting a customer's vehicle up to pass emissions, then with a nod and a wink, 'ok we'll make it run properly now' so it doesn't stall all the time when the vehicle takes off from stationary. Volkswagen are lucky - they are the first, they will look like saints by the time General Motors and Ford and so on are found out! Hand sup all those then, that think the real reason why all vehicles moved over onto sophisticated fuel injection systems around the year 2000, was REALLY because the old systems were not able to 're-configure' themselves and detect a test being run?! Fact: an old pump-style diesel injection system, or carburettor feeding a 'gas' (petrol) engine is 'stupid' in the sense, it cannot re-configure itself 'on the fly' or indeed, at all. The diesels of old, you had to fit bigger injectors or smaller, the carbs you had to re-jet them and so on. ONLY the computer-controlled fuelling systems of modern times, can re-map the engine to use less fuel, in if not the blink of an eye, certainly over a few seconds. Volkswagen make great cars, I had a diesel 'station wagon' or estate car in the UK. They know what technically-vacuous politicians don't, that you can't get both low emissions AND good power delivery. Set it up for one, you ruin the other. A few words on the testing methodology are warranted - it's with the car sat in a lab. Not even tootling around an indoor test track, with pre-programmed stops and starts, acceleration, deceleration. Really? In a multi-billion dollar world-wide industry? The unreality of the testing makes a joke of blaming the car maker no? Even if they are super-good, not sly at all, the test results are not even a faint shadow of the actual emissions when driving the car. They are giving us an accurate simulation of running the engine while sat in our garage. What a crock. Just get electric motors in there, and in practice, the emissions per journey comedown, settle for that until ICE motors (Internal Combustion Engines) finally become the minority. You know we could run these things on fresh air, right? Compressed air, injected would do a similar job, and no burning so no emissions. But the oil companies never wanted to develop a fresh air engine, can't think why...! . . .