Reuters reports that VW chairman Poetsch has discovered that only a "small number" of engineers [1]was involved in designing and installing software in 11,000,000 vehicles - software designed to cheat emmissions testing and, as a result, damage our health.
Folks, we are in for much more of the same, and much more of the same is going on right now. Software is too sophisticated for consumers or regulators to truth check Your phone bill, your electric bill, your internet data bill, your drug FDA test approval, your bank bill, on and on.
Design in small or big cheating....make more money!
Legislation is desperateley needed that penalizes software cheating and theft at 1000 Xs the money stolen. that will never happen. What will happen is the software cheating will become more and more prevalent and more and more refined.
Links:
[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emissions-idUSKBN0TT14V20151210#6hrLOYO2bHP2AduL.97