The uncertainty among automakers is large. Some monitor internally continuously the limits of allowed software to make any mistakes.
The fear of illegal software like Volkswagen diesel vehicles is according to the US Environmental overseers not uncommon in the industry. “Two manufacturers, whose names I can not name, are approached me and explained to me how they try internally to prevent such situations, and has been for 25 years”, the Secretary of State for Transport and Air Quality said in the US Environmental Protection Agency , Christopher Grundler, the “Handelsblatt” (Friday). The EPA had the VW exhaust scandal around the forbidden engine programming ( “defeat device”) with uncovered.
Grundler said, one of the automakers have a committee which limits the allowable software on guard during the development phase of the motors. “Another producer told me that he shouldered his staff every year and every software developer carries a laminated card in his breast pocket, on the definition of ‘defeat device’ is what is allowed and what is not.”
In addition, announced the chief environmental overseer of the US auto industry that the EPA would cooperate more with international colleagues from other authorities: “It is my intention to create a global network of regulators to share information and us exchange. ” In the spring should a top-level meeting at the EPA take place, to which European authorities are invited.
To the still unclear recall plan for the VW diesels almost 600,000 affected in the US said Grundler: “We insist that the repair is durable and has no impact on the owners of vehicles What we say. now for five months. ” (Dpa)
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