[ysofunny]

The most poetic part is how the train maker are merely looking out for their own profit margins.....

Economic theory(?) would suggest that if they don't do this, their competition eats their lunch and drives them out of business.

heck, Volkswagen did something much shadier to get their vehicle's emissions to comply

[cryptonector]

This is much shadier than what VW did. VW was working around unrealistic emissions standards -- illegal, sure, but they didn't cause big ticket items to stop working. The train manufacturer here appears to have done something much worse.