Tony Saunders

Audi Suspends Two Engineers After Admitting Installing Emissions Cheat Device In 85,000 Vehicles : FUTURE TECH : Tech Times

NoahWeb

2 out of ~55,000 employees, or 0.000036%. Not sure "heads are rolling" but understand the point you are trying to make.

KevinGary

Audi has proposed a software fix for the 3.0 TDI that is going to cost approximately $600 per car. Just waiting for EPA approval.

James517

I would suggest that any heads that should roll, should come from cost accounting or those willing to cut corners to make the numbers look good. In my imagination, engineers would simply have added the equipment needed to pass tests. It's pressure to maximize profits that would encourage cheating. The same ones encouraging deception have probably done their best to avoid taking responsibility for creating pressure on others.

IknowHuhA6

Unfortunately its corporate culture where multi tier management creates buffer of plausible deniability for executives. Engineers were probably told to "Just make it work by target date or heads will roll" in non-specific statement with their managers not caring about details.
The engineers are focused on specific internal task, not the external regulatory compliance issues, but their superiors are. Sounds like they found their scapegoats.

Tony Saunders

The implication of the article is that these two engineers were suspended for having misled the Board following the EPA'S findings surrounding the 3.0 TDI, which had, embarrassingly, had led to the Board's initial denial.

2014a6tdi

Rogue engineers, rogue managers and the poor abused executives & board that just don't know what's happening.

Give me a break.

I hope the poor executives and board learn from the EPA and CARB what "punitive" means along with their new understanding of "defeat device".