&quot;This was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reason&quot;<p>This was a system. A complex one. No way it was done by a couple of guys at 2AM, or whatever. This has to have been inter-group collusion, and management is in CYA mode and shoving individuals under the bus.<p>VW has gone from being a cravenly stupid company that is going to be fined billions of dollars, to a place where I suggest it is in every engineer&#x27;s best interest to resign, and the earliest opportunity they can manage.