Engineering360: "Four Audi engineers indicted in emissions cheating scandal"

I wholeheartedly agree these cheaters and anyone who directed them to cheat should be held accountable. What I never hear about in any fraudulent testing scandal is any repercussions for those who approved the defrauded test.

An independent party tested some of these diesel vehicle engines using a non-static test that approached if not duplicated actual driving conditions. This is how the higher emissions were discovered. This dynamic testing was certainly more expensive to perform than the static test. Why wasn't this emission failure discovery made at the request of an emission regulating authority? Testing each and every vehicle for compliance will likely always be a static test of some sort. The original prototypes and a random sample of production units should have been subjected to a dynamic test long ago.