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Originally Posted by cHaotix
I think that's against the law. Not so much the flashing but trying to pull it off without allowing anyone to know what was really changed.
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Unless the NHTSA is looking at the source code and the specifications the software team uses and are actually programmers themselves, I don't see this being a problem.
I doubt that anyone in any beaurocracy requires that each and every software change be reported in specificity and tracked in a database... that would be the same as giving the NHTSA the complete specs for every part in the car and notifying them every time a change is made. No way do they track in this kind of detail.
Furthermore, what's to stop them from fixing the problem with the accelerator and reporting the fix with a nice innocent sounding euphamism such as "Changed throttle response algorithm to reduce fuel consumption under full throttle."? Ok... so this technically describes what they could change to correct this issue without calling attention to the fact it is a defect. Anyone looking at "what changed" will never know. It's all nice and legal since nobody "lied". The description is exactly what the new flash does differently, just like you asked.
(This is all hypothetical)