I didn’t argue it required a separate physical thing, I argued it required _a_ physical thing. Please let me know how you intend to have a machine measure temperature, vessel speed, engine RPM, atmospheric pressure, manifold pressure or vacuum, or any other parameter for the purpose of activating, modulating,…

You forgot the buddy and revolving door factor. That’s something the auto industry doesn’t have to the same degree as most others especially the financial industry. In most financial crimes the government people are more looking for a cut or are outright buddies with the accused. Which is why generally speaking its…

The EPA uses the term “strategies” for what you are describing.

In the terminology of the law it refers to a physical device. The software issue is resolved in that the software is considered part of a physical device.

“Merely making a car that gets its ideal mileage and emissions in the narrow band of the test parameters without actually changing how the car operates if those same parameters are encountered on the road would have been cleverly exploiting a loophole.”

VW and maybe others got very narrow apparently. So narrow they…

All the PR person had to do was put “to my knowledge” in front of it. Good luck proving a PR person knows the legal and technical definitions of a defeat device. Let alone the technical details of what was done.

“At least with the plant in Thailand, the bikes can actually be assembled where the parts are made.”

“NOWHERE does Tesla say that.”

The system that builds a better idiot failed to ‘see’ a parked fire truck.

Case for improving things making things broken, the Kinja text box by which this is being typed in. Where backspace makes the cursor go to a random location sometimes among other issues.

Lessons from Science fiction:

Oxygenates were added to the fuel in the 1990s to trick old mechanical carburetor equipped cars into running lean. Now if there are any such cars still be used as daily drivers they have certainly had a tune up including setting the mixture if not a carb re-jetting to compensate for the oxygenate in the fuel in the…

“I would hope they sent something to the guy who cracked the cipher”

He was obsessed with this scene from the Blues Brothers?

But did they actually use that to make back seat space for passengers? It doesn’t look that way in the photo but the photo is at an angle so maybe they did. It makes sense if they pushed the rear seat back as a result but if they didn’t, then it’s just moving cargo volume around.

“Minimal interior intrusion.”

“A clever way to get independent rear suspension with a fixed differential/driveshaft.”

I am trying to figure out what this achieves besides needless unsprung weight and complexity and I can’t think of anything except using motorcycle parts that were laying around for the sake of doing so.

All enforcement is selective. American society has allowed itself to be controlled by managers, busybodies, and control freaks who have leveraged making many many laws even very ticky-tacky ones where by they can go after anyone they please. The only thing that keeps anyone out of prison these days is a lack of desire…

This may come as a shock but these sort of busy bodies like calling the cops on people in general. Look at old TV shows these sort of people would be made fun of. However in the decades since the 1960s government’s power has grown and the busybodies have taken control of it, leverage it, and so forth. Yes some of…