A year of digging through code yields “smoking gun” on VW, Fiat diesel cheats
While I certainly don't support the 'rogue engineer' excuse that VW originally gave everyone, the idea does bring up an interesting point.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's still pretty clear that this was not right. They still did it, and then didn't tell anyone. And that doesn't sit well with me.In my opinion (and I welcome disagreement and debate) engineers have an obligation to say 'no' to wiring unethical code.