A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW, Fiat diesel cheats
While I certainly don&#x27;t support the &#x27;rogue engineer&#x27; excuse that VW originally gave everyone, the idea does bring up an interesting point.<p>An engineer did write this code. Almost certainly, many of them, working together. Now, their managers told them it was okay to do this, maybe that legal had given the go-ahead or that they had to do it to keep their jobs... But it&#x27;s still pretty clear that this was not right. They still did it, and then didn&#x27;t tell anyone. And that doesn&#x27;t sit well with me.<p>In my opinion (and I welcome disagreement and debate) engineers have an obligation to say &#x27;no&#x27; to wiring unethical code.