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[–] 38 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Weirdly enough there's a pretty easy way to stop emissions limits from being bypassed - make it a physical limitation, not in software.

But like with putting tablets into every fucking car nowadays, doing anything physically would require just a bit more money, ergo it won't be done.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    How would that work? I'm a diesel technician and a lot of the work I do is emissions related.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    I guess we'd have to go back to using carburetors

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    how do you have 0 software?

    these hacks are pretty low level and you need something driving the control through the bus to the sensors and response

    these systems are a feedback response not a fixed thing

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    In my country they allow some small motorbikes to be ridden by 14 years old if it's limited to not exceed 45 km/h.

    The physical limitation used 30+ years ago (a bottleneck in intake + different cylinders in the CVT) could be removed as easy as the software limitations that are used today. Maybe even easier than today as it didn't require a specialized tablet and an expensive software license

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