I&#x27;m willing to take down votes for this position, I don&#x27;t understand the fuss here, nor to credulity of the actors whom should have (and probably did) know better.  If the tests were meant to reflect real-world conditions, they should be be designed to do that -- they clearly weren&#x27;t, and were only tiny sample of performance from which (wild?) extrapolations were drawn.<p>Don&#x27;t have a cry about it, fix the tests.  Get together some disinterested parties to design them to capture the behaviour we all apparently expected the current dud tests to measure.<p>This actually reminds me of how the failure of the bodies responsible for banking oversight cry WOE when the industries they were charged with overseeing did bad things.  Failure of <i>real</i> oversight again.  And it the same way, we have these same bodies (NOT end users) expecting to be paid for making these mistakes.  Who benefits from the fines? Not car owners, not car makers.