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[dotancohen]

Yes, of course, the industry designs vehicles specifically to pass the tests.

But the tests themselves are very comprehensive, both in the US and in the EU. It's like having 100% code coverage in your unit/integration/regression tests, and then doing test-driven development.

[mrguyorama → dotancohen]

Also the tests are regularly updated/changed/made more difficult to prevent engineering to the test alone