Well, powerful money is always hand in hand with powerful politics. They are
cut from the same cloth. Hard to hammer the very people that help you keep
your job. I think one banker did get prosecuted. Minor minority figure as I
recall.
Hammering an engineer is zero risk and has good optics.
From: Adam Moffett
Sent: Saturday, August 26, 2017 12:58 PM
To: af@afmug.com
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Volkswagen engineer
Iceland put 8 or 9 bankers in jail for that exact situation.
It's not clear to me why the bailout here happened the way it did. It seems
like if the banks failed due to lending money that had no chance of being paid
back, why did the bailout require more money than the value of all the loans?
I'm not well informed on the topic, but the things I heard never added up to a
clear picture.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Sean Heskett" <af...@zirkel.us>
To: af@afmug.com
Sent: 8/26/2017 2:31:13 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT Volkswagen engineer
And yet somehow all the bankers who engineered the collapse of the world
economy never went to jail but this guy does?!?!
Crazy world...
Engineer environmental destruction = bad
Engineer economic destruction = meh
I agree with chuck too, he designed an engine to pass a test. Seems like the
test was flawed, not the solution. It was an engineering team from a
university that discovered the problem because they actually tested the
emissions from the tail pipe under real world driving conditions.
-sean
On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:04 AM <ch...@wbmfg.com> wrote:
So one of the engineers at VW got a 40 month sentence for the emissions
fiasco.
I have to admire the clever way of getting around the test. I have a hard
time thinking of the guy as a criminal. He looked at the test protocol and
created an engine that would pass the test.
Blame the protocol creators for not making a good enough test.
