German regulator says it discovered new illegal software on Daimler diesels
This is further proof that everyone was doing it.<p>There are so many valuable lessons to takeaway from this, but weirdly for me, it's to <i>never depend on innovation</i>. Especially <i>specific</i> innovation.<p>It's important to remember that everyone a decade ago was riding high about the potential for diesel. Consumers, car producers, and regulators. And everyone was making promises about how good diesel was going to get - based on the expectation that you can just dump resources into a certain technology and get innovation,  magically and predictably. But it feels like everyone just hit the innate limitation of the resource and tried to pretend it didn't exist.