[joelkevinjones]

A coworker and I had a discussion with another coworker when this scandal broke. We couldn't convince him that he was wrong when he said there is no way car software could "cheat" like that. Even after we came up with several things that could be done in the space of about a minute, he remained unconvinced. If you follow through the article to the reference US DoJ press release, VW's software used several of the ideas we came up with as part of their "cheat". This coworker also thought that the California drought was a big hoax, so...

[oska]

What's the point of this anecdote other than to make you look smart and your coworker look dumb? Maybe both things are true but it's hardly a very interesting observation that there are both smarter and dumber people in the population.

[Theodores]

It is how scandals work. Lots of people believe the lies and can't be persuaded to think from an evidence first viewpoint. They need the story to be headline news on the BBC or some other reputable source before they will 'believe it'.

Every scandal relies on groupthink to keep it quiet.

[Gibbon1]

You know I wouldn't have have read his comment if you hadn't wrote this one.

[gcb0]

in the middle he points how the software "features" were decidedly malicious as they are similar to their own hypothetical solutions to circumvent the law?