I don't think anyone is worried about access control - we want these videos flung as far as possible, to try and counteract the viewpoint that EVs are slow.
And I think I'd rather trust people's private web servers than yahoo. We're likely to get the video sent further, faster, and with less advertising, errors, and random acts of censorship that way. Has anyone considered using indymedia.org as at least one potential place to announce our work? I was watching the milling throngs at Jim Hightower's Rolling Thunder event and listening to them - and _every one of them_ was a potential EV convert, and just didn't realize it. All of them want cleaner air, and/or no wars with other countries over oil, and/or no drilling in the [insert your favorite ecosystem here] - we should have had a few EVs there and a booth! I thought seriously about asking if I could drive my car up and park it with the 'art cars', just so I'd have a excuse to explain that there was another option. It does make sense - indymedia's crowd is largely way-left, intelligent, young, and politically-active. Not a bad crowd to get on your side if you're trying to change something, no? I've been amazed lately as I talk to people at assorted conventions and gatherings how prevalant the EV myths are.. that EVs are horribly expensive (but in production volumes, we have reason to beleive they would be cheaper than gas cars - look at golf carts!), that EVs just export their pollution, that EVs are slow (this one seems to be extremely popular), and, most recently, people who don't understand that EVs are not hybrids. I had to explain to someone on a network talker _four times_ that I didn't use any gasoline in my car at all when driving it day-to-day before he understood what I was saying. Someone at the SEVA meeting - I wish I could remember who - suggested that we demo the cars in front of science centers, since the crowds are almost certainly going to be in the right mood to see and learn about EVs. I think this is a great idea, but I don't think we should stop there. Using car's like Neon's buggy, we should make a wonderfully 'edgy' EV video - 6 or 7 minutes - that interlates really good music [for some reason I think techno would be appropriate, but we could try several flavors] and shots of EVs moving - fast, slow, and in between - with someone explaining that EV myths are, literally, myths. Then try and get it spread around the net as far as possible. It's worth a shot.. I think maybe one of the big reasons we aren't seeing any commercial EVs, despite the fact that computer and battery and silicon and motor technology are ready and able, is public perceptions. The public has some mighty funny ideas about EVs.. S.
