This little book presents background information on the exhaust gas scandal, e.g. which pollutants are critical, how engine control units, exhaust gas recirculation and exhaust gas aftertreatment work, which driving cycles are used for testing, how manipulations on the test bench are possible and political environment this could happen unnoticed for a long time with different consequences in the EU and the USA. Measures are presented with which vehicles can also comply with real legal limits and how manipulations can be prevented legally and in which legal and politically in the future. Additional details are made accessible to the reader through references to literature.   Contents ChronicleCar emissions and healthExhaust gas cleaning and control unitsMeasurement procedure and approvalLegal informationClean vehicles in the future   Target Groups Lecturers and students of technical, legal and political studies Politicians, decision makers and interested laymen The Author Prof. Dr.-Ing. Kai Borgeest worked at Robert Bosch GmbH in the Diesel Systems division until 2003. Since 2003 he has been head of the Center for Automotive Electronics and Internal Combustion Engines at the University of Applied Sciences in Aschaffenburg. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.    

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