09-20-2015, 05:25 PM
mrlynn wrote:
So was this 'defeat' software designed to work automatically by detecting when an emissions test was being performed, or was it activated by a switch the owner could control? The article suggests the former, but I wonder how that would work.
The articles I've read were pretty clear on this: The software works automatically. Some even gave a rudimentary explanation of how the software worked.
Until this story broke, no one besides VW was aware of the existence of the defeat software. That being the case, how would the driver activate the software?