Diesel Tuners Indicted for Smuggling $33M in Defeat Devices into US

https://www.thedrive.com/news/diesel-tuners-indicted-for-smuggling-33-million-in-emissions-defeat-devices-into-us

by mauvehaus • 2 years ago

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Terr_• 2 years ago

"Indiscriminately attacking other people with chemicals devices", although that isn't as catchy.

Sure, you can have your vehicle as loud as you want and emit whatever you want, if you recapture all those sounds and substances again before they hit innocent bystanders and their property.

quantified• 2 years ago

That would take away the joy of rolling coal on people.

linotype• 2 years ago

Oh, darn.

kylehotchkiss• 2 years ago

Just direct the audio output from the exhaust directly into the drivers ears.

foxyv• 2 years ago

I have always thought that car horns should be as loud in the cabin as the front of the car.

15155• 2 years ago

Seems like the next logical conclusion is to sell dual-use devices with a "just add software" component provided by a "Russian" company.

wil4212• 2 years ago

There’s exactly one company who can crack BMW ECUs. You have to send it to them and they have a Russian method to do it. Cough, cough, somebody hacked Bosch or BMW and grabbed the firmware keys.

They moved to Finland recently for obvious reasons.

I found quite a few devices for cars like that, just install this Russian or Chinese software to enable the real thing.

telgareith2• 2 years ago

Haha. If they have to have their hands on it, it's far more likely they're swapping a chip or if fancy- using a die channel attack.

neuralRiot• 2 years ago

Depends on the type of ECU, if you have the tool to dump the firmware (via CAN or BDM/ JTAG) you send the file and they modify it, you just flash it back.

metalman• 2 years ago

the worst part is that a diesel that is tuned, exactly right, will make truely scary amounts of power, and no smoke. And much less noise you might think. Watch a realy nice custom big rig hauling a heavy load, nothin but heat comming out the stacks, you can literaly see the heat, clear air, with heat ripples. Over fueling,gives a tiny boost off the line, but whoes kidding who?, thats not where a diesel will ever shine. Whats fun, is running light, and baddly embarasing euro rides with proof of inexorable torque, never gets stale

Diesel Tuners Indicted for Smuggling $33M in Defeat Devices into US

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