"Brian-Gaff" wrote in message
...
I'd have thought that this kind of mode would be called test mode and used
by the manufacturer to check nothing was out of alignment. The fact that
it also is used in official testing seems to be a bit of a silly thing to
suggest.

No I'm tending toward thinking that the folk designing the test have at
best been naive about actually what has to be tested, ie in a real
situation. The fact that its nominal test mode kicks in could have been
argueed as a diagnostic mode after all. I juust wonder why VW could not
get decent spin doctors instead of owning up to deliberate fraud.

I bet the reason they owned up is because they knew
it was a deliberate fraud that they got caught doing.

They were apparently warned about it years ago more than
once and chose to do nothing about it until they got caught.

"Jeff Layman" wrote in message
...
On 28/09/15 01:54, wrote:
On Sunday, 27 September 2015 23:04:15 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

The cheatware detects when a motor undergoes emissions testing, and
then

how is that possible?

One report said that it detected the steering wasn't being used when the
car was being "driven" on a rolling road test rig to check emissions.

--

Jeff