> Do you really think your friends are qualified to have the opinion
Yes... most of the friends in question (MechEs, as I mentioned) work in power generation, petroleum engineering, etc. Not sure what your friend group looks like.
> We are talking about the long-term health/environmental effects of millions of vehicles after all,
If you're going to act like you're doing some kind of utilitarian calculation, you're going to need to do a more convincing job of recognizing this as a tradeoff space rather than seethingly appealing to "science teams"
And you genuinely don't see how they can be incompetent to have an opinion on the long-termmedical/environmental effects of deleting EGR for example? You also don't see how on top of that they might be biased?
Yes... most of the friends in question (MechEs, as I mentioned) work in power generation, petroleum engineering, etc. Not sure what your friend group looks like.
> We are talking about the long-term health/environmental effects of millions of vehicles after all,
If you're going to act like you're doing some kind of utilitarian calculation, you're going to need to do a more convincing job of recognizing this as a tradeoff space rather than seethingly appealing to "science teams"