{"id":6818,"date":"2015-09-23T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-23T23:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6818"},"modified":"2015-09-23T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-23T23:28:09","slug":"coolest-vehicle-hack-ever-and-thank-you-vw-for-making-our-cars-not-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/23\/coolest-vehicle-hack-ever-and-thank-you-vw-for-making-our-cars-not-suck\/","title":{"rendered":"Coolest Vehicle Hack Ever (And thank you VW, for making our cars not suck!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/09\/22\/the-tech-behind-how-volkswagen-tricked-emissions-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\">from The Washington Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>The tech behind how Volkswagen tricked emissions tests<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/andrea-peterson\" target=\"_blank\">Andrea Peterson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/people\/brian-fung\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Fung<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.washingtonpost.com\/rf\/image_908w\/2010-2019\/Wires\/Images\/2015-09-22\/Getty\/DV2135183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>(Odd Andersen\/AFP\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen isn\u2019t hiding from its emissions cheating scandal, which the company now says affects some\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/economy\/vw-emissions-cheating-affects-11-million-cars-worldwide\/2015\/09\/22\/30f59bca-6126-11e5-9757-e49273f05f65_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">11 million diesel cars<\/a>\u00a0worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s be clear about this: Our company was dishonest with the EPA and the California Air Resources Board and with all of you,\u201d Volkswagen U.S. chief Michael Horn said Monday night. \u201cIn my German words, we have totally screwed up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for finally coming clean, VW. But how exactly did the technology behind Volkswagen\u2019s so-called defeat device actually work?<\/p>\n<p>Regulators allege that Volkswagen installed software into its cars that allowed the autos to circumvent EPA tests. But that still doesn\u2019t explain how VW vehicles were able to determine when they were being subjected to an emissions test in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>To understand more about how Volkswagen cheated, we have to know a bit about the EPA\u2019s testing process. When carmakers test their vehicles against EPA standards, they place a car on rollers and then perform a series of specific maneuvers prescribed by\u00a0federal regulations. Among the most common tests for passenger cars is the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www3.epa.gov\/otaq\/standards\/light-duty\/udds.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Dynamometer Driving Schedule<\/a>\u00a0(UDDS), which simulates 7.5 miles of urban driving. Here\u2019s what that looks like, expressed as a speed profile.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/09\/22\/the-tech-behind-how-volkswagen-tricked-emissions-tests\/\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at WaPo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Washington Post The tech behind how Volkswagen tricked emissions tests By\u00a0Andrea Peterson\u00a0and\u00a0Brian Fung (Odd Andersen\/AFP\/Getty Images) Volkswagen isn\u2019t hiding from its emissions cheating scandal, which the company now says affects some\u00a011 million diesel cars\u00a0worldwide. \u201cLet\u2019s be clear about this: Our company was dishonest with the EPA and the California Air Resources Board and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}