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Default EPA caught VW cheating - how does the car know it's being tested?

Ewald Böhm wrote:

Apparently Volkswagen/Audi cheated on the USA emissions tests since
2009 to 2015 by turning off the EGR to lower nitrogen oxide emissions
ONLY when the car was being tested for emissions.

REFERENCES:
http://blog.ucsusa.org/volkswagen-ca...cle-recall-887
http://www.engineering.com/AdvancedM...leID/10688/VW-

Caught-Cheating-on-EPA-Tests.aspx
http://hothardware.com/news/vw-inten...gine-software-

to-cheat-emissions-tests-forced-by-epa-to-recall-482k-vehicles
etc.

My question is HOW did the car *know* it was being *tested* for emissions?

Note that this applies to DIESEL cars only, apparently.

Jon