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Submission + - Tesla car log: NYT writer Broder lied 1

Catbeller writes: "Tesla has posted the driving log of the Tesla driven by NYT writer John Broder: http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/most-peculiar-test-drive, and it is a hell of a tale. He sped. He turned up the heat. He undercharged. He passed a charging station. He CIRCLED a charging station, apparently to drain the battery. He detached from the chargers when he was woefully undercharged, against advice. He never ran out of power. He seems to have intentionally, maliciously tried to make that car run out of power — and he failed. The car overperformed and gave him more range than the specs indicate, despite the abuse. Let's get this liar fired, kids."

Comment WIRED exclusive: logs indicate NYT writer lied (Score 1) 231

The NYT writer lied. It's over for that story. But the damage is done.

He was told to do certain things. Instead, he:
-Turned the heat up.
-Speeded, consistently. Over 80 mph at some point.
-Didn't stay at the supercharger long enough, almost every time - and lied about it.
-Pulled away for 60+ mile trip even though he knew it only had a charge for less than 40 miles left.
-Circled a supercharger station, for some reason.
-Lied about the car going dead. It did not.

Broder should lose his job. Read it, please!
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2013/02/tesla-logs-nytimes/

Tesla Driving Logs Contradict New York Times Claims

Data released by Tesla Motors late Wednesday night directly contradicts a damning review of the automakerâ(TM)s Model S sedan by the New York Times.

The data, pulled directly from the electric sedanâ(TM)s on-board computer, claims that New York Times reporter John M. Broder never ran out of energy during his extended drive of the Model S, despite his account to the contrary. ...

Comment Re:Barbara Streisand Effect? (Score 1) 700

You have no data on reliability comparisons. This Tesla just came out.

And electric cars should have significant reliability advantages over petrol engined cars. No oil. No moving parts. No dirt. Sealed compartments. Solid state components.

Now if we could simplify the thing. I don't need power sunflower seed crackers. I need a basic runabout.

Comment Re:Unexpected consequences of paywalls. (Score 4, Funny) 700

"So, nobody can read NYT's article (without registering/logging in), but everyone can read Musk's rebuttal. That's going to make the debate fairly one-sided in the public's mind."

And who's fault would that be, Mr. Murdoch?

And as for damage, Tesla's stock price dropped five dollars, from what I hear. Who reads the NYT? Stockbrokers and finance people do.

Comment Cry baby, hell! Top Gear faked the failure (Score 2, Informative) 700

Tesla got a copy of the script for Top Gear - written before they drove the car - and it had pre-planned a battery disaster. That was the major beef - it was a fix, a fraud. (Top Gear is not a auto review show - it is entertaiment) I think that on trial the matter of the fake-drained script simply wasn't considered. The judge simply ruled that the TV show was a known bender of facts and that the show, even doctored as it was, didn't hurt Tesla - no libel, no financial harm. He simply ruled that the audience knew it was fake, more or less.

And here's Jalopnik: http://goo.gl/AdRdN

Of course, Top Gear admitted the car they pushed wasn't out of batteries but that it was done for effect and that it is completely true that the car would have run out at 55 miles of track time. Producer Andy Wilman defended their actions by basically saying "Duh, it's a television show" and accusing Tesla of trying to use them for press.

From Treehugger: http://goo.gl/ILrHB

...

As Mike posted in November, however, it was looking unlikely that Tesla could actually prove that any substantial harm had been done, and indeed that's how it ended up, with the judge throwing out the lawsuit arguing that TV viewers are savvy enough to know that not all is as it seems. Jalopnik has a pretty decent summary of the rejection of the Tesla lawsuit (complete with gloating Top Gear fans in the comments):

The judge today dismissed this as unreasonable as motorists are aware that cars will perform different under different conditions, such as being on a racing track.

Justice Tugendhat also made mention that what Tesla appears to want is a legal ruling saying Top Gear is a bunch of lying liars who lie, but that "rectification of inaccuracies is not a function of the courts unless that can be achieved in the course of proceedings properly brought to enforce a recognized course of action."

Of course what is legal, and what is moral, are not always the same thing. And the Top Gear script writers and presenters had made up their minds to highlight the shortcomings of the vehicle, even before they got their hands on the thing. ...

Comment Re:Reality vs idealism (Score 1) 290

Banks and entertainment giants. "And such". It was originally a longer list, but I'm trying to self-edit my wordiness.

The entertainment giants had cable - dedicated lines. They should have stayed there. Once they get into the standards, we've lost the open web.

Freedom, when it comes to such as browser code, is an absolute. You cannot be just a little bit unfree.

Comment Re:Valve / Steam... (Score 1) 371

Well done. If profits are all that matter, then corporations are all that matter.

During the hours of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, taxis and other cart drivers were charging enormous sums of money to carry people and their goods away from the fire. They would then drive a block or two, and dump the cargo and order people off - and return and repeat. Robbery - free market robbery.

Until, according to one eyewitness, a passenger pulled a revolver out of his coat, pointed it at the driver, and told him to carry them out, as agreed, or die on the spot. The Free Market died at the instance, and the people got away.

Not only the vicious lies the drivers told, and got away with, were the evil here. The point is they were charging people hundreds to get away in the first place. A free market paradise, in what Naomi Klein calls the Shock Doctrine mode, will rob you down to the bare bones and dump you on the side of the road, possibly alive if they've no time to finish you off, anytime a fire or a volcano or a tsunami hits. Ask the people in New Orleans who are still trying to get their property back.

There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Market. In its pure form, those who have money have an overwhelming information advantage over the common schmuck, and will always win more money. We are seeing what happens in a real world experiment in the US right now, when wealth absorption becomes an infinite curve.

There MUST be a balance between what a goods producer can charge and what a common human can pay, or else we are all mostly be doomed to living in Styrofoam boxes some day, when rents become ten thousand a month for your average studio. That balance cannot be supplied by a free market in the real world, because such a market is impossible. The wealthy control information, prices, costs, media, their own government officials - you can't beat them at that game. They have to be controlled, by force, at some point, because they do not recognize limits. Or science, for that matter. Only immediate advantage.

Comment Re:Reality vs idealism (Score 3, Insightful) 290

Our browser engines will now become secrets. Cracking those secrets will be a felony worldwide.
This is the end of the world wide web. The network is now a commercial sanctuary, guarded by businesses for businesses.

I never understood why banks and such were even allowed to be on the web. It was obvious then, and now, insanely obvious, that they would envelope and digest the protocol, and make it their own. They should have stayed on their own closed lines. The web was not designed for secrets.

Except now, it will be.

Comment Show me (Score 1) 419

Well, then, if they build it, and it works, then the debate is done. If they can't, the debate is done. The best argument is a working engine. Let's see if they can do it.

If we are ever getting off this death trap before the next killer asteroid whacks us, we need lateral thinking. Good to know someone is trying something new, instead of recycling 1960's rocket designs. Rockets just aren't going to cut it. There's a loophole in the rules somewhere, and eventually, slowly, painfully, we will find it.

Probably won't be Americans that do it. We are too in love with our old successes. When we visualize radical change, it usually involves self-parking cars. Weird solutions will come from people who have no past to gaze back on.

They ain't laws of physics, they're just rough guidelines. We're not through warping the universe just yet. Just 'cause it doesn't exist doesn't mean it can't. The universe didn't have smart tweaky bags of carbon trying to change things before.

Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 318

They have been saying "one system, one exploit!" for over eleven years now - and OS X still stands, unbroken, a Unix with a happy face on.

iOS has been out for five years, and still stands, unbroken.

You have to concede at some point that Apple built unbreakable OSes. Sure, at some time in the future, quantum computers could crack all the locks. And an asteroid absolutely must hit at some point and kill us all. But. Windows exploits number in the millions, Android is barely keeping clean - they are demonstrably broken.

If you want a clean Android phone, get the Google Nexus 4 - it's updated by the originator of the standard, who has a market to uphold.

As for Windows- my God. I won't let a Win box on my network. It's Patient Zero through Ten Million.

Comment Re:I have a better idea... (Score 2) 649

Iceland didn't bail out their thieves - they voted nationwide not to do what the Very Serious People believed they should have done, which was to slash spending and bail out their thieves, lending Confidence to the International Investors Who Would Provide Jobs.

Instead, they let the banks fail, and refused to provide a penny to the international investors who wanted a bailout. And they are jailing their thieves.

And guess what! They are the only recovering economy in Europe. They are BOOMING. The Very Serious Chicago School Economists were dead. Wrong.

Let them fail.

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