><i>Germany’s automotive regulator KBA found five unapproved software functions in Daimler’s Euro 6 diesel engines, affecting as many as 1 million vehicles in Germany, Bild am Sonntag reported Sunday.</i><p>And then,<p>><i>“We don’t see any evidence that Daimler was designing software to deliberately cheat on emission testing,” said Arndt Ellinghorst, an analyst with Evercore ISI in London.</i><p>If it's not a defeat device like the VW scandal, then what specifically is the prohibited function causing the recall? The article doesn't really explain what the device or function in question is.
I'm really surprised the Europe big car manufacturers spent so much effort on small Diesel engines instead of Turbo gasoline engines. My theory is the fact that having a majority of Diesel vehicles in Europe lowers their oil consumption vs Gasoline engines, hence, lowers their CO2 production but with the extremely negative fact of increased local smog.
The most vexing part of this is how long it took for others to notice. Did no competitor try to legitimately meet emissions requirements, fail, and immediately turn to Dalimer/VW to see how they "met" those requirements?<p>If the answer is collusion, then that only raises more questions on what else they could all be working to sweep under the rug.
Diesel engines should be banned entirely. The collective effects on human health are catastrophic, even when compared to gasoline.<p>You will find a lot of Europeans, particularly Germans, who still believe in the "efficiency" and "cleanness" of diesel engines, but this is really just a residual effect of VW's extensive marketing campaign during their turbodiesel "glory days" - before they got caught lying about it. VW really caused crimes against humanity that we're still paying for.<p>There is no such thing as "clean" diesel and there never will be.
Automotive seems so broken.<p>Japan hasnt innovated in 30 years.<p>US companies are too big/corrupt to make good decisions.<p>European cars are all style. Expensive, non-reliable, hard to fix.<p>Not sure what the solution is, everyone else is a low quality copycat(Tesla/Kia/Chinese car companies).<p>Not to say any cars are bad, but the companies are awful. A car is entirely dependent on the engineering team behind it, you can only hope that a company set things up to be successful.