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Unless you have inside knowledge of the project, it is very difficult to determine who actually wrote the code.

In a typical modern car, there are probably more than 30 different companies providing software components into the car. Sometimes, in a single black box with complicated fucntions, there could be 5 software companies contributing.

So it is unsurprising of confusing story that Audi has been put foward as the source of the "dieselgate" software whereas before Bosch was the source.



> Unless you have inside knowledge of the project, it is very difficult to determine who actually wrote the code.

No inside knowledge is required to understand how ECUs are developed namely not by the engine manufacturers.


Well, they are already part of the project. :-)




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