Is Volkswagen’s US CEO really proposing that just a handful of engineers are responsible for getting software designed to cheat emissions testing through the technical vetting process and onto our roads?
Mr. Horn, as the owner of a 2014 Jetta TDi, I’d like to know what other software and/or hardware in my vehicle might have been poorly, or even intentionally faultily, designed and still made it through technical reviews and quality controls.
Will my airbags deploy? Will the antilock features of my brakes work as expected? Will my vehicle function in a safe and roadworthy manner?
If a couple of engineers can fool your entire quality control apparatus, it does not instill in me, your consumer, a sense of confidence in your company and its products.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/volkswagen-pulls-2016-diesel-lineup-from-us-market/
You know, he might be right but everyone also knows that it’s the captain’s fault if the ship sinks and people die despite anything he may have done or not done. As the leader of an organization, you take responsibility. That’s why they get paid the big money, otherwise what’s the point of those unreasonably blovai salaries and bombastic bonuses they keep trying to justify?
You do your jobs, I got your backs. – The C-level Mantra
But not any more.
Kurt von Finck Hasn’t been that way for a while in most organizations, be it business, government or even society anymore, it seems.