Exhaust scandal VW employees to manipulation software later … – Heise Newsticker

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yet to turn of the year 2014/2015 got in the US a software update diesel cars, through which the engine has been refined manipulation. At the time, the US Environmental Protection Agency CARB VW had already set.

VW employees should have diesel engines even then manipulated as the California Environmental Protection Agency CARB the automaker already for months due to significantly increased exhaust gas values had the binoculars. The report NDR, WDR and Süddeutsche Zeitung . According to VW developers have apparently extended nor turn of the year 2014/15 the illegal breaking device by a software update.

steering angle detection was added

Software experts have for the NDR the control software of a US VW Passat examined before and after the update. They should have found that in the new version, the feature of the steering angle detection has been added. The software was so so refined, “that it can detect more accurately, whether it is in a test situation or not,” Thorsten Holz is quoted, Professor of System Security at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum. It should be aware of another program code has been added, said the Hamburg hacker Felix Domke.

The California Environmental Protection Agency had called in early summer 2014, to explain to high emission levels in diesel vehicles in road maintenance Volkswagen. VW had CARB then in December 2014, a voluntary recall of the affected vehicles offered to reduce by a software update nitrogen oxide emissions in road maintenance. From the end of December 2014, the vehicles more than 500,000 affected

Fatal steering angle detection

CARB experts have indeed observed in the follow-up in May 2015 that the nitrogen oxide emissions have been reduced in road maintenance by other means within the software updates. As the limits have been exceeded, however, continue to fifteen times, the authorities have intensively tested and discovered that depending on steering wheel movement, speed, driving time and air pressure, the exhaust gas purification changed and the cars realized the testing situation. The advanced software have possibly contributed decisively that CARB illegal disconnection device finally discovered.

Volkswagen did not want to comment in detail on demand, they say. A VW spokesman had told them “that the whole subject is being studied intensively. Prior to completion of internal and external, independent investigations but we do not give any information on this.” For the business community it is, the fraud software was further developed after the initial programming of 2006. but is responsible for this only a “small circle” of employees who acted without the knowledge of senior management of Volkswagen.

mid-September 2015: the US environmental protection agency accused the Volkswagen Group to have equipped diesel cars of model years 2009 to 2015 with a software that can fool the tests on US environmental regulations. For similar findings and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has come. Both authorities have sent corresponding complaints to VW,
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