Engineering360: "VW Exec Pleads Guilty to Diesel Fraud Charges"

One wonders if he is simply an "available" scape-goat that the EPA could get their hands upon or is he truly THE person behind the WHOLE thing (which I doubt). Sending THE person who thought up, got approval for, and directed the whole software tricking EPA tests directly into the EPA "lions den" hardly seems likely...but, who knows, maybe VW is/was THAT gullible, since the obviously THOUGHT they wouldn't get caught.

'...got approval for....'

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Whoever gave approval, however high that went (likely it went very high), should be facing the music...but almost certainly will not.

The whole idea that the knoweldge of and complicity in the fraud might be hermetically sealed off at some level below the level with responsibility for meeting the emissions standards while still making a desireable car to drive, i.e., the factor motivating the fraud, is patently absurd.

Makes me wonder what kind of stick and or carrot the higher-ups have hanging over this scapegoat.