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Elon Musk Lays Out His Evidence That NYT Tesla Test Drive Was Staged
mykepredko writes "Tesla Motors CEO and founder Elon Musk definitely isn't the best guy to try to pull a fast one on. The visionary entrepreneur set Twitter a titter when he claimed earlier this week that New York Times writer John Broder had fudged details about the Tesla Models S car's range in cold weather, resulting in what he termed a 'fake' article. Musk promised evidence, and now he has delivered, via the official Tesla blog."
Regardless, Border needs to go. He has no integrity.
Sounds like he fits right in at nyt
The bad news is, your car can and will tattle on you.
If Tesla is only keeping tabs on reporters, then it sounds like that's entirely justified. Should they have warned him that he has no privacy while driving the car they loaned him specifically to report to the world about it? I don't know. In this specific case, I'm guessing he simply would have found other ways to tarnish Tesla's reputation. They may have actually, it sounds like John Broder is incredibly stupid.
If Tesla is keeping tabs on consumers, then that's definitely a bigger sin than Broder lying through his teeth. Any proof they do this for everyone? I'd be more likely to believe they only do it if you're driving THEIR car which they loaned you for a test drive for you to report truthfully on. Probably not safe to just assume they respect your privacy more than your cell phone company does though.
I hope they sue the NY Times AND the reporter for libel, because this is what it is. Finally someone designs a mass market electric car with plenty of speed and range, and they get stuck with a fucking liar with his own agenda. The car may be nowhere near perfect, but it's certainly good enough. Once it's produced in quantity I'm sure tweaks will be made. But if this project dies before it's born, we won't see another one till the next billionaire comes along.
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
What scares me about this is:
How much is Tesla implying that the customer is using the car wrong?
Are we really looking at Terms of Service about how you are going to use an automobile you purchased? I know this was a media test drive, but what's to stop Telsa from using their diagnostics to throw you under the bus for speeding if you complain about running out of juice in a remote location "if the customer had been operating the car properly it wouldn't have run out of charge."
Are Tesla owners getting a nanny that will monitor their driving habits and tsk tsk at them when less than optimal driving results and range happen?
I understand the car is very complex, but in the real world stuff happens and you can't assume the conditions or even the actions of the driver are going to be optimal.
So we take the word of a CEO as truth however consider the Reporter of a respected source a Lyer?
What has the world came to?
Digital logs can be altered.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Yes, because John Broder is an anti-green liberal hippy. Sure.
Your argument is so free from reality that I can see soap bubbles coming from your ears.
There is also a loud and large lobby of pro-wind, pro-solar and pro-electric car types out there furiously personally attacking anyone daring to give a bad review to any electric car. And Elon Musk is leading the charge (no pun intended). He did the same thing with Top Gear when they gave an earlier model a bad review. Basically, if you give a Tesla a bad review, you can expect to get immediately and heavily personally attacked by the the Tesla CEO and everyone out there who thinks that the all-electric car is the solution to all our problems.
I wouldn't review a Tesla if they paid me. I would as soon write a book criticizing Scientology.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?