Hot! MB, BMW, VW, Audi & Porsche cartel exposed - report

[SCOTT27]

This was the incorrect software incident from earlier,identified and resolved and being externally tested to show this was an error.

 

[EnI]

Prosecutors raid BMW headquarters, suspecting 11,400 cases of fraud

Good. So BMW can be also officially cleared of any intentional & malicious wrong doing.


BMW press release:

March 21, 2018

Munich. The BMW Group confirms that the Munich public prosecutor has opened an investigation regarding a software update which has been mistakenly allocated to around 11,400 BMW 750d and BMW M550d vehicles. On 20 March, employees of the prosecutor’s office searched two BMW Group locations in connection with the investigation.

As previously communicated, in the course of internal testing, the BMW Group realized that a correctly developed software module had been allocated in error to models for which it was not suited. Therefore the BMW Group plans to recall 11,400 vehicles, for which a corrected software will be made available as soon as it has been approved by the relevant authorities.

All further steps are being taken in close co-operation with the relevant authorities.

The BMW Group takes the situation very seriously and has a significant interest in the circumstances being fully explained. The company is co-operating fully with the authorities. In addition, the company had already started an internal investigation and will obviously forward all information gathered so far to the authorities. The BMW Group continues to assume that the situation was caused by an incorrect allocation of the software and does not represent a deliberate attempt to manipulate exhaust emissions.

Many of the affected vehicles were initially sold with the correct software and ran correctly for over two years. The incorrect software was employed a significant time after these models originally started production.

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

the situation was caused by an incorrect allocation of the software and does not represent a deliberate attempt to manipulate exhaust emissions.

This is the only part that needs to be confirmed by the investigation

 

[CrunchSlaughtered]

For me the bad news from the discovery of this fault was the fact that the cars were passing the technical tests witch include also an emission test for several years but in the same time the wrong software was worsening the emissions. Which means only one thing, that it acts exactly like the defeat device in the cars of VAG. It recognizes that the car is being tested and the emissions are brought to the level of compliance and they are worsened when the car is not on the test bench. If this is by accident or deliberately needs to be confirmed by the investigation.

 

[Cashmere]

New lawsuit against BMW in US on 335D and X5 3.0D

BMW Sued by U.S. Diesel Drivers Over Emissions-Test Cheating

Drivers of “tens of thousands” of X5 and 335D model diesel cars built between 2009 and 2011 sued BMW and its technology supplier, Robert Bosch GmbH, alleging they installed algorithms designed to manipulate testing systems, using methods similar to those admitted to by Volkswagen AG. They claim those vehicles are polluting at up to 27 times the legal limit, according to the complaint filed Tuesday in New Jersey federal court.

Link: BMW Sued by U.S. Diesel Drivers Over Emissions-Test Cheating

 

[SCOTT27]

Ambulance chasing...

 

[EnI]

New lawsuit against BMW in US on 335D and X5 3.0D

Link: BMW Sued by U.S. Diesel Drivers Over Emissions-Test Cheating

“At these levels, these cars aren’t just dirty -- they don’t meet standards to be legally driven on U.S. streets and no one would have bought these cars if BMW had told the truth,” said Steve Berman, the plaintiffs’ attorney who has filed similar claims against Ford Motor Co., Mercedes-Benz, Fiat Chrysler Automobile NV, General Motors Co. and Volkswagen.


So this guy has convinced some diesel car owners they could milk out some money from carmakers, and now he's leading a legal crusade against those carmakers.

I see no case here since there's no action by EPA against those carmakers & their diesel models - eg. banning them from roads due to not meeting emission standards etc. There would be a case though if that actually happened.

If EPA is fine with those diesel vehicles emission & mileage testing results I don't see the problem here.

There's a possible case of carmakers misleading the customers by claiming certain mileage / emission output - proving not to be the case in real-life driving situation. But that's hardly carmakers' fault since those testing standards are set by authorities. Just like eg. safety test standards - where certain results are guaranteed only at certain situations (certain speed, optional safety features present on-board, certain crash overlapping area etc). It's obvious ICEVs polute more & consume more fuel when driven hard etc. And it's obvious the car & driver+passenger damage / injuries are different / bigger when crashing @ eg. 90kmh instead @ 64kmh.

And again ... I detect a lot of hypocrisy in those legal actions (mostly eg. by some eco organizations etc) against diesel passenger vehicles only - while completely ignoring other big diesel pollutants: trucks, vans, buses, locomotives, ships & boats, diesel-fuelled furnaces for home heating, diesel-fuelled electricity generators etc etc.

Also: the target should be the authorities - the regulators, not the producers. Producers produce what is legal. And the regulators / authorities are the ones setting the legal rules.
Sure it's morally wrong producers can sell you harming products (tobacco, alcohol, drugs, sugary drinks, too fatty & too salty food etc - but unfortunately it's legally ok when the legislation allows it. Same case applies to cars & air pollution.