https:// jalopnik.com/what-happened-with-raj-nairs-departure-from-ford-1823355880
ok so his inappropriate behavior was actually scamming emissions testing. 13 dollars to 10 in 3 months. I might believe you.
I was involved in some laboratory emissions testing back in 2000. While chatting with one of the lab techs, we were discussing the “official EPA fuel efficiency test” since we were using it for the vehicles we were testing.
It’s a set course program for dynos. And it’s standardized (obviously). But you put the car on the dyno, attach the exhaust hoses and hit start. The program was like 20-ish ‘miles’ long- The car goes x distance then the program simulates a 5% degree hill, so the dyno lugs a bit harder. Then down that hill, so the dyno eases up. Couple of sections of idling to simulate stop lights… etc…. etc…
But as we were talking about it, the lab tech mentioned that since it’s a standardized test, that all the manufacturers had built into their software the ability to recognize the test. “If the car drives EXACTLY .75 miles then goes uphill for EXACTLY .25 miles then etc etc” then the software would kick in and pull the timing and throttle to jack the results in a favorable way.
As the tech said, “EVERY car manufactuer does it. Every single one of them.”
And this was in 2000!!
Sounds like this is how they do it.
his agent's name is matt del piano. I'm sure he's a classy gent.
There are tons of services like this for deliveries.