Implementation of anti-tampering measures into the existing legislative framework. Deliverable D3.3
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Pollutant emissions from road vehicles have reduced significantly thanks to the development and application of effective and often sophisticated emissions control systems. Tampering of these systems leads to elevated emissions comparable to uncontrolled levels of vehicles of decades ago. Therefore, a small share of tampering potentially leads to a significant increase of the EU fleet average emissions. The DIAS project focused on developing and providing technical solutions for tampering prevention, detection and reporting. It is important that solutions are effectively implemented on new vehicles so as to ensure that these prevent, or detect and report possible tampering as good as possible during the lifetime of a vehicle. The original goal of Task 3.3 was to develop a test protocol to be used at type approval to check the effective implementation of technical solutions. This presumes that adding a test protocol is the best solution for implementation into the type approval procedure. However, during the execution of the DIAS work it became clear that this may not be the most effective way to ensure that effective anti tampering measures are taken for vehicles entering the EU market. A test protocol is fixed and predictive, while tampering strategies tend to explore new angles that may bypass any test protocol. Fixed testing protocols limit the scope and thus the performance of a system to what is exactly tested and testing burden will be high when the tested system is complex.
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TNO Identifier
985472
Publisher
TNO
Collation
12 p.
Place of publication
Den Haag