.@MLiebreich proposes to base EU policy on aggregated telemetry data instead of lab. tests. Of course! Why didn't I think of that earlier?
https://twitter.com/MLiebreich/status/1316972987892043777
The problem with the lab tests is that they don't reflect reality. They are paid for by the manufacturers instead of by an independent and adversarial organization like the EPA. The manufacturers use loopholes to game the tests. (This part of the problem doesn't exist in the US.)
But even if we organised EPA style advesarial testing, it is very hard to account for actual use. E.g. of plug-in hybrids that can or cannot be a match for someone's travel pattern and can or cannot be plugged in all the time.
Which brings us to our present time where manufacturers keep track of cars using telemetry data.
Why not use that data to see what is really happening? It would eliminate all the perverse incentives to create & use loopholes. It would bring honesty and reality back.
Thoughts?
Why not use that data to see what is really happening? It would eliminate all the perverse incentives to create & use loopholes. It would bring honesty and reality back.
Thoughts?
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