BBC putting out propaganda for corporate interests?
Imagine my shock.
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Benign Individual (Old Spike)
I'm skeptical its some machination to further corporate interests. I expect it was simply the guys at Top Gear feeling like the thing they love was being threatened and so wanting to make fun of it. After all electric cars before Tesla have a kind of reputation for being terrible anyway so from a writers point of view they're simply playing to the audiences expectations.
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danmanjones (Old Spike)
Yeah, maybe it's just a coincidence this time. It's hard to know for sure.
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sato (Old Spike)
i dunno it sounds like it was a half truth. they calculated it would do 55 miles on their track, which does make sense since the 200 miles is at standard driving and track driving you're never cruising. what probably happened was rather than drive the entire 55 miles and be caught semi-off guard when it ran out, they staged the power running out earlier, so the logs showed that it didn't actually run out. it would have at 55 miles anyway, it's just quicker and easier cinematically to do what would have happened as a performance. they know the specs beforehand so it would be easy to work out that it would run out at about 55 miles, and write a script based on that certainty.
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(Old Spike)
BBC putting out propaganda for corporate interests?
Imagine my shock.
(Old Spike)
I'm skeptical its some machination to further corporate interests. I expect it was simply the guys at Top Gear feeling like the thing they love was being threatened and so wanting to make fun of it. After all electric cars before Tesla have a kind of reputation for being terrible anyway so from a writers point of view they're simply playing to the audiences expectations.
(Old Spike)
Yeah, maybe it's just a coincidence this time. It's hard to know for sure.
(Old Spike)
i dunno it sounds like it was a half truth. they calculated it would do 55 miles on their track, which does make sense since the 200 miles is at standard driving and track driving you're never cruising. what probably happened was rather than drive the entire 55 miles and be caught semi-off guard when it ran out, they staged the power running out earlier, so the logs showed that it didn't actually run out. it would have at 55 miles anyway, it's just quicker and easier cinematically to do what would have happened as a performance. they know the specs beforehand so it would be easy to work out that it would run out at about 55 miles, and write a script based on that certainty.
it's still a lie, just a much smaller one.