While the short-lived term ‘rogue engineer’ was initially coined in 2015, it really came to the fore in the past year as Volkswagen management tried to claim it was unaware of the defeat device installed in its diesel line of automobiles. Much like those forlorn commentators who claim that corporations should not be punished for the acts of a ‘rogue employee’; the claim that some lowly engineer came up with the idea and then implemented an illegal device to hide excessive pollution is worse than laughable.
