VW US recall over emissions test cheating

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by fang_gt86

Reading the statistic makes me wonder how on earth, literally, are we going to manage 10 billion people by 2050 (That's the max capacity the world's agriculture can sustain). Currently there are 7.6b and it's already bad enough. Sh*t, I'll still be alive by then in my late 60s. If all goes well lol.

Do you enjoy making up numbers?

[fang_gt86]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

Do you enjoy making up numbers?

Well, close enough.

http://www.geohive.com/

http://www.worldometers.info/

[iwantafrs]

Since the CEO resigned, I wonder if the design of VW cars will change.

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by fang_gt86

Well, close enough.

http://www.geohive.com/

http://www.worldometers.info/

The Earth can handle far more than 10 billion people.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by iwantafrs

Since the CEO resigned, I wonder if the design of VW cars will change.

Doubtful. I bet the CEOs sometimes don't even have a clue what models they make. They are numbers guys and leave everything else up to their underlings.

[jvincent]

VW needs better lawyers/advisors.

They should have been in full denial mode until an actual smoking gun (email, etc) that showed the guys writing the S/W for the ECU were instructed to fudge the S/W to make the emissions pass just for EPA tests. All VW needed to keep claiming was that the behaviour was an "honest" programming error and that they would address it ASAP. No harm, no foul.

The "honest" mistake argument would be that under "steady driving conditions" we programmed the ECU to have the best possible emissions. What's that you say, SDC happen to correspond to the EPA test environment? Wow, what a coincidence!

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

Doubtful. I bet the CEOs sometimes don't even have a clue what models they make. They are numbers guys and leave everything else up to their underlings.

A CEO who doesn't know what models they make would be a terrible CEO. While that's possible, it's also terribly unlikely.

[fang_gt86]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

The Earth can handle far more than 10 billion people.

Do you realize that this VWgate may be a direct result of more people demanding more? Giants like VW always gotta be ahead of their game to stay where they are. Staying ahead of the rest means their R&D department needs to be on overclocking on renovations. Legit renovation means more cost, more cost means less profit for the investors. Mad investors means bad business. What's another way around it? Cheat and hope that nobody will ever find out.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

A CEO who doesn't know what models they make would be a terrible CEO. While that's possible, it's also terribly unlikely.

Ya it was an exaggeration to make a point. The CEOs of any large company rarely have a clue about the day to day operations. They don't need to since that isn't their job.

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by fang_gt86

Do you realize that this VWgate may be a directly result of more people demanding more? Giants like VW always gotta be ahead of their game to stay where they are. Staying ahead of the rest means their R&D department needs to be on overclocking on renovations. Legit renovation means more cost, more cost means less profit for the investors. Mad investors means bad business. What's another way around it? Cheat and hope that nobody will ever find out.

That doesn't change the fact that as long as we have fossil fuels, the earth can easily handle more than 10 billion people. When oil runs out, things will be harder. We'll actually have to start recycling some of our waste or capturing carbon we spewed into the atmosphere. That is more than decades away, though. Modern farming produces incredibly large quantities of food.

Besides, I have Bambi right outside my window, just waiting to get eaten.

http://i.imgur.com/ZYWubVP.jpg

VW tried to make a system that works without urea injection. Oops!

[fang_gt86]

Originally Posted by jsimon7777

VW tried to make a system that works without urea injection. Oops!

VW will quickly learn that sometimes, you can put out fire by pissing on it. lol

[EAGLE5]

Originally Posted by fang_gt86

VW will quickly learn that sometimes, you can put out fire by pissing on it. lol

You won the internet today.

[mav1178]

OUCH.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/audi-p...123513621.html

Volkswagen will dismiss the R&D chiefs of Audi and Porsche and its top manager in the United States where the carmaker has been found manipulating diesel emission rules, a senior source said on Thursday.

Audi R&D boss Ulrich Hackenberg, Porsche's Wolfgang Hatz and VW's U.S. chief executive Michael Horn will be dismissed at a meeting of the supervisory board on Friday, the source said.

Germany's Bild newspaper earlier on Thursday reported the dismissals of Hackenberg and Hatz.

VW, Audi and Porsche all declined comment.

[stugray]

All of the above will be moot when Lockheed starts selling the fusion sources they announced already.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/pro...ct-fusion.html

I believe it is based on the Farnsworth fusor tech.
Here is a lecture by Dr. Bussard explaining the physics behind it:
[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk6z1vP4Eo8"]Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really) - YouTube[/ame]



Disruptive technology like the world has never seen.


Once "essentially free energy" is available it will change the world in ways we haven't even thought of yet.
How about self powering atmospheric water condensors or desalination plants that make pure water while filtering DT out of the water to fuel itself.
There could suddenly be fresh water in places that there wasn't before.


Deuterium mining will be the next biggest thing.