Swedish authority: We can not detect the VW cheat – Today’s News

     
     
     
     
     
 
 
     
 

     Published 2015-09-22 15:31
     
 

 
             
         

             
 

     
     
 

 
         

     
     
     
     
     

         

                     

The cars that are approved for the Swedish market tested at a facility in Jordbro. But Transport Agency, which is responsible for the tests, believes that in the present situation is virtually impossible to detect the cheats that Volkswagen devoted itself.

                     
                 

         
 
         
         

             
                 
                 
                 

                     

 

The cars that are approved for the Swedish market tested at a facility in Jordbro. But Transport Agency, which is responsible for the tests, believes that in the present situation is virtually impossible to detect the cheats that Volkswagen devoted itself.

Before a car can be sold in Sweden to the type approved. Then examines, among other things, that the exhaust emissions are within the limits that apply, and it made the test facility AVL in Jordbro outside Stockholm.

It is independent lab which is linked to Transporstyrelsen and that car manufacturers make use of to get their vehicles type approved, much like at a vehicle inspection but with much more advanced tests.

 
        
             

     
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Transport Agency makes beyond that own, independent tests on cars when they run for a while in Sweden to check if emissions are at levels that the car is approved. Even when one uses test facility in Jordbro.

– The purpose is to see if the systems are affected by aging vehicles, and to some extent that they are not tampered with as VW has done. At the same time it is difficult to detect these kinds of things, I honestly do not know how it would go to, says Per Öhlund, investigator at the Swedish Transport Agency.

According to Per Öhlund it clear of the rules that it is forbidden to have the type of software that the automaker made use of, and that makes the car senses when tested.

Then set the engine in order to reduce emissions. When the car then leave the test facility is the engine electronics set so that the car becomes more potent and enjoyable driving performance compared to when it is tested.

– What comes out of the exhaust pipe under test is good. Since the parameters of that comfort and driveability are better, and then you get higher emissions, says Per Öhlund.

According to Per Öhlund can unveiling of VW cheat lead to improve and develop tests to detect this type of manipulation come.

– It’s very clever of the EPA (the US authorities) to discover this, they have managed to outwit the software in any way. In the forthcoming test program, we can take this into consideration, he said.

DN looking AVL for comment.