The illegal software of VW? There were many who know him – AlVolante

DISCLAIMER – About the scandal Dieselgate , the leaders of Volkswagen have repeatedly asserted that the decision to adopt a software irregular, indeed illegal, had been very few technical , as very few people were aware of its existence. The thesis has now been blatantly contradicted by a survey conducted by the German newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung, that the reality is totally different from the view taken by leaders of the automaker. And as reported by the German newspaper in practice is what would have established the internal investigation launched by Volkswagen itself and whose results the automaker promised to communicate. In fact, the reporter from the Süddeutsche Zeitung did not do their own investigation on the incident, but largely on the results obtained from the investigation work of the same Volkswagen.

FROM 2006 – In this framework, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reported that the investigation established that the offending software was adopted the first time in November 2006. The initiative to use a “device” that can reduce emissions in testing on roller benches with respect to the actual use of the road – developed is produced by Bosch – was taken within the Volkswagen. The basis of the decision there was the belief that the authorities would not be in conditions to detect the existence of software manipulator. Also according to reports from the Süddeutsche Zeitung .

SILENCE WITH DIRIGENT – The investigation would also have found that the idea was born in the face of difficulties to reach the desired objectives (compliance with the emission limits for NOx, but also maintaining performance and fuel interesting, not in test approvals but when driving on the road). All this without communicating anything to top managers. This is because a distorted corporate culture did not foresee that there were things impossible, and no one felt that instead of saying something impossible there. In practice, the men’s technical department have bowed to pressure from top management to be a solution to the needs of the American market.

IN MANY ADVISED – recalling that until 30 November the last Volkswagen has guaranteed impunity to those who had provided information to reconstruct the story, from the investigation of the Süddeutsche Zeitung , would be finally knew that many of the software. Even one of the technical research and development department have commented saying that the story was “an open secret”. It should, however, also said that the article in the German newspaper refers to a witness who said that he went to talk to a top manager, but the latter even he bring himself to say no.