a tiny not correction, but additional info. The 8 tesla S drivers who left from Rockville, maryland, and met a few more at the Delaware superchargers, are just owners who want to show the simple truth about the Tesla. there is an electrical engineer who did a 3/4 circumnavigation in his Tesla from Oregon down and across and back up, a young couple who heard about it and were interested as a fun thing to do and threw together a suitcase, a computer geek who wanted to join and has a 20kW PV system, a brand new owner and airline pilot, a pair of folks who want to prove broder wrong and others. just regular folks who are a bit geeky and love and understand technology. this was not quite a flash crowd and was completely spontaneous.
--- On Sun, 2/17/13, Bruce EVangel Parmenter <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bruce EVangel Parmenter <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [EVDL] Model S Convoy Sat 2/16/2013. DC-Conn Tesla Model S Owners Crowdsource Trip To Counter NY Times Report To: [email protected] Date: Sunday, February 17, 2013, 6:42 AM {% My imagination came up with: A major advertiser of the media-outlet asks the editor for a piece that shows Tesla fails to achieve its range specifications, and elaborates on how EVs are not for the public to consider as a viable driving option. The editor remembering the methods BBC Top Gear used, says, "Yea, we can do that ...", figuring they could pull the same shenanigans. The editor assigns a writer to the piece of fiction. The writer knows nothing about plugins, but does their best to wing-it. The writer turns in the piece to the editor, and after some tweaking (back and forth), it is sent out as a newswire, and made available on the printed editions as well. Other media-outlets copycat the NYT piece and they allow readers to comment on their newswire pages. The media-outlets were not prepared for the huge public response, and the quick way Tesla went on the offensive. Tesla, having been burned before (by the BBC Top Gear episode), had the same 'take no prisoners' approach as media-outlets have. But when the 'shoe is on the other foot', and media-outlets are under public attack, then Whoa! (the media-outlets are not prepared for that!) Because Tesla is a professional company, they have the staffing to know how to deal with liars. It was easy enough to gather the data and present it in a form understandable to the general public. Once all that was revealed, media-outlets still claimed Tesla (and all EVs) are not worthy of the public's consideration (the media / Tesla tug-of-war continued). With not one, but eight Tesla-S drivers retracing the same route and steps as the NYT writer's piece, showing in detail how the NYT piece was an evil bit of total deviousness, some truth of how the media operates has come to light for the public to see. ... Actually, media outlets (like political parties) are not worried. They know the public has short memories and will continue to come to them for their entertainment that pre-programs on the public's minds with their agenda. If you look at the history of the press, of how through exaggeration, manipulation, and just plain lies, the media has a profound effect on the public. Looking at the worst of that, the "yellow press" or "yellow journalism", you can see the devastating effect the media can have. Make that same 'how-to-control-public-opinion' power available at a price, and you have today's media-outlets. {brucedp.150m.com} ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism - On Sat, Feb 16, 2013, at 07:36 PM, Cor van de Water wrote: > Broder probably did not expect that Tesla would not only download, > but even publish the vehicle data (or did not expect the S to have > such advanced logging of cabin temp and actual speed). > So he apparently thought he could get away with twisting the truth > but is now publicly caught lying apparently... - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Email service worth paying for. Try it for free _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20130217/544ffd83/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
