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Vehicles will still be tested for emissions, but not until they are five years old.
From that data, the computer was able to detect when the car was being tested for emissions in a lab, at which point it turned on its pollution controls.
Volkswagen admitted in September 2015 that almost half a million of its diesel vehicles in the US were fitted with software to switch engines to a cleaner mode when they were being tested for emissions.
Thirteen common plant species in the Mojave and Sonoran Desert regions of the western US were tested for emissions of biogenic non-methane volatile organic compounds (BVOCs).
When the cars detected that they were being tested for emissions in the lab, which is the usual way they're tested, a few lines of code changed the way the engine behaved to emit fewer pollutants.
In case you need a refresher, in fall of 2015, researchers discovered that VW had engineered the software governing its TDI diesel engines to behave differently when being tested for emissions than they do when being driven normally.
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VW's UK managing director, Paul Willis, and Paul Higgs, chief executive of the Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA), which tests for emissions, are among witnesses due before the House of Commons Transport Select Committee.
The sample shown in Fig. 3d has been tested for field emission owing to the relatively clean CNT surface and sufficient layer thickness for covering the roughness of the polished W tip surface.
A methodology was developed and tested for controlling the emissions from a group of micro-generators aggregated in a Virtual Power Plant.
The Envirotest Systems Corporation, the company that previously tested cars for emissions, was dogged by bribery allegations against its employees.
They've done the research, 'we have tested it for emissions for any gasses that come off it and there are none'.
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