Comment on Volkswagen's Game of Make-Believe

One of the great lessons of the pioneering computer scientist Alan Turing is this: Computers are only pretending machines.  Software is always just imitating something else. Volkswagen seems to have taken this maxim to new heights. The Environmental Protection Agency alleges that the company installed “defeat devices” in its four-cylinder Volkswagen and Audi-brand diesel cars from 2009 to 2015.