Company fined nearly $2 billion over illegal modifications on pickup trucks: 'They inflict real harm on people'
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The U.S. Justice Department has accused truck engine manufacturer Cummins of sneaking software onto trucks that bypass emissions controls.
  • taladar@sh.itjust.works
    25·
    9 months ago

    It becomes increasingly clear that internal combustion engines are simply not capable of having the kind of low emissions that a continued use of them would require, no matter what corporate propaganda would like to spread about them.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      I think there are still some relatively niche use-cases for them left. Specifically, if you’re using sufficiently few of them and/or using them in sufficiently rural areas, then all of the polluting outputs other than greenhouse gases become less of an issue, and if you’re running them on 100% biofuels, then they can be carbon-neutral. (Also, since vegetable oil doesn’t contain sulfur to begin with, an engine running on biodiesel emits zero SOx, which is nice.)

      In other words, replacing the cars and trucks that can reasonably be replaced with bicycles, trains, and electric automobiles (ranked from best idea to worst, by the way) is good enough; we don’t have to be perfectionist about it.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      I have honestly never seen someone who brags about a Cummins who isn’t a douchebag. I have several truck friends, all of them agree Cummins is reserved for redneck douchebags.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    The company has seen no evidence that anyone acted in bad faith and does not admit wrongdoing

    I supposed the software bypasses just “accidentally” got committed and applied then. I suppose they just plum forgot to remove the

    if (emissionsCheckFailed)
{
  emissionCheckFailed = false;
}