But would a dealer be required to apply the fix if they work on the car for any other reasons?

“Your love for cars doesn’t supersede the lives of 1.2 million people who die in automobile accidents every year.”

The oculus rift.

Better call Saul.

You created this caption? Inconceivable!

They assume an average weight for passengers so that they don’t have to weigh everyone. They do weigh baggage, and every pound over your allotment for baggage is a pound less in freight they can carry, the majority of flights have mail on them as cargo. In addition, as someone else mentioned, no one’s being asked to…

Except that “good performer” is already more than adequate for its intended purpose. It’s not that they couldn’t make a diesel car that meets the regulation, it’s that they wanted to out perform their competition in what is essentially a marketing contest.

In person from about 100 feet away, it looks absolutely amazing. From ten feet away, I’m of the opinion that it looks cheap.

First gear: sure, it’s an “easy” fix, after all, the base software functions already exist, but at what performance cost? Easy to do, tough to swallow?

I suspect that whatever this cheat was for is not going to be caught by state emissions inspections. If it were, these cars would have been failing these tests for years. The cheat software was only enabled when on a rolling road, as far as I know.

Well, Rent vs. mortage + expenses less equity!

Your honor, I would like to direct you to the defendant’s post on lifehacker, dated 9/21/15...”

With enough energy you could be pushed into someone parked in the next state.

I was surprised they didn’t call a red flag! you have a clearly unstable or completely idiotic person on the track, so even behind the “safety car” they would be going fast enough to likely not have enough time to react!

Who cares? If you can pass this test, AND the head-on collision tests, you’ve built a safe car. The small-overlap test was presumably designed to capture a very deadly level of overlap. More overlap, the impact is distributed over a larger area, less, then it would have been a glancing blow anyways. And, as commenter…

Whenever I see diplomatic plates (very rare for me), I park nowhere near them, cause no way they’re paying any attention when backing out of their spot.

I don’t know. Public safety is one sector where many people who want minimal government interference make considerable exceptions.

I’m kinda small government minded, but honestly, I much prefer the cars I’m on the road with being inspected semi-regularly.

That’s because you haven’t shopped around. I did, and pay $50/month (all taxes and fees included). And I’m sure I could do better.

I’m a cyclist (and more-so a motorist), and often think that when issues of cyclist and motorist interactions come up, people are exceedingly unfair to cyclists, especially given that motorists ignore traffic laws extremely often as well, and to more dangerous consequences.