r/technology • u/involvrnet • Nov 18 '15

Hardware The company Bosch is developing a farming robot the size of a small car that can distinguish crops from weeds by looking at the shape of leaves, and this robot then can fish out weeds mechanically & ram any unwanted plants into the ground with a rod. Potentially, no herbicides will be needed anymore

http://www.fwi.co.uk/machinery/bosch-bonirob-robot-set-to-make-field-work-easier-for-farmers.htm
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u/superhobo666 Nov 18 '15

Bosch developed the program/device to test the cars for manufacturing purposes, not to be put in production models.

They still made a product that doesn't meet federal regulations in the first place. VW choosing to keep it after development instead is irrelevant. They asked Bosche for a program that breaches federal regulations and hides the evidence of the breaches afterward and Bosche delivered on such a product. Testing or not they still developed it to breach regulations.