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Just how serious is the revelation that VW, the largest automaker in the world, used special software in some of its diesel-powered cars to cheat on emissions tests? First, consider the numbers. The company estimates that about half a million of the cars it sold in the U.S. with four-cylinder diesel engines during the past five years were programmed to emit fewer pollutants when undergoing emissions test. Worldwide, the total might be as high as 11 million vehicles sporting the "defeat device" software.
The resulting fines from regulators in the U.S. and other countries could run into the billions of dollars. (No wonder VW's stock has plummeted by 36% since news of the emissions cheating broke.) Even more crucially, the company may have seriously undermined its reputation with customers, many of whom are undoubtedly feeling less inclined to trust a brand that actively sought to evade the rules. The fact that VW markets these polluting engines as "clean diesels" that get great fuel economy adds insult to injury.
"I would say it's egregious," adds longtime auto industry analyst and independent consultant Bill Visnic. Rigging cars with software to cheat on emissions tests points to an "institutionalized" problem at VW. This wasn't the act of some rogue engineer or an oversight borne of cost cutting, but rather a "concerted effort to skirt regulations."
VW is under pressure to fix the problem in millions of faulty cars. But any solution is going to be painful. Because diesel engines tend to emit more oxides of nitrogen (or NOx) than gas-powered units, carmakers normally add special exhaust treatment gear to their diesel models to meet clean air rules. Typically, that requires a system to inject a chemical called urea into the exhaust, thus neutralizing the harmful NOx emissions. Nerad thinks VW will have to retrofit its affected cars with such a system, which could cost thousands of dollars per vehicle. Visnic thinks VW will opt for a software fix that will reprogram the cars to emit less NOx. The company might also have to install a new catalytic converter. Or it might do some combination of the three.
Despite the stigma, odds are customers who wanted a diesel before will still want one, says Visnic. Those drivers tend to be familiar with the technology and the unique advantages of diesel engines (lots of torque and towing capability, along with high fuel mileage). And those folks will probably understand that what VW did doesn't indict diesel power entirely.
Lost in all the talk about VW's perfidy in cheating the emissions tests is the fact that they were able to get away with it for such a long time. Only when a private research consortium started studying the company's diesel emissions did word start leaking out that something was amiss. Otherwise, it's impossible to say when, or if, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency would have caught on.
But scientists gained a new edge with the advent of techniques using "selfish genes" that take advantage of natural elements to cheat genetic "Mendelian inheritance" -- whereby offspring of modified and nonmodified organisms are just as likely to inherit traits from either parent -- and overcome the fitness cost.
"There are several examples of selfish genetic elements that cheat Mendelian laws, so instead of 50 percent chance of a modified gene transferring to offspring, they have an 80 or 90 percent chance," said Unckless. "By doing that they spread through a population much more quickly."
The KU researcher said by tying the mutation for shorter lifespan, or resistance to dengue fever in mosquitoes, for example, to one of these selfish genetic elements that can drive through populations, scientists found a way to overcome fitness cost. "It's compensated for by the Mendelian cheating going on, so you can spread it through a population. It's known as it 'gene drive.'" Unckless said despite its promise, the approach "more or less stalled out" until two years ago when researchers in California incorporated CRISPR/Cas9 into their gene drive constructs. Suddenly, dreams of creating super mosquitoes to eradicate disease were alive again.
"If you had to fix your car because you knew a piece of the engine was missing, and your solution was 'I'm going to just take connect pieces in a random way -- that's NHEJ," he said. "Obviously that doesn't work most of the time. On the other hand, there's homology-directed repair. It uses a template, which is usually another chromosome -- because there's usually two copies. It's like the perfect template for repairing your 2007 Honda Civic. You go to your neighbor who has the same car and compare them and say, 'That's what's wrong and you fix it based on that."
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