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James Robert Liang got jail.

It is quite strange, since the defeat device part was actually quite insignificant to work around a vehicle reset during testing and skip the warm up timer.

The real scandal is that emission treatment in diesels did not work outside of synthetic kinda steady state tests. And that applied to way more manufacturers than VW.



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