Since my work is briefly described in the book, I will take this opportunity to provide additional, clarifying details of the account for the reader. I don’t fault Jack for not sorting out the myriad details of this in finer detail because I understand that “Faster, Higher, Farther” was focused on the corporate and business aspects of the scandal and not so much about how it became possible to find the “defeat device.” I could easily write an entire prequel to Jack’s book just about the development, under the most difficult circumstances, of my ROVER/PEMS real-world emissions and fuel economy testing technology that was used by West Virginia University in finding the problem. I am supplementing the book with additional details to help clarify why real-world testing was not always done and about how it came into being. I really enjoyed reading the book, especially about the corporate and business conditions which made fertile grounds for the deployment of an emissions control “defeat device.” But I will restrict this review to a clarification of the part for which I have first-hand expertise and experience, namely the testing and regulatory side of the story as well as the players involved. This review is from the former EPA engineer, Leo Breton, discussed in Chapter 7 of Jack Ewing’s book “Faster, Higher, Farther”, specifically in the chapter entitled “Enforcers.”
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