Son of Dieselgate: second line of VWs may have used "defeat devices"
by Cory Doctorow from on (#R9H6)
It's not just the 11 million VW diesels that the company admits to having converted to secret mobile gas-chambers; VW is now probing whether earlier models also used the "defeat devices" that detected when they were being evaluated by regulators, lowering emissions temporarily, then ramping them up to forty times the legal limit later. (more")