<story><title>Road Tripping Around Europe in a Tesla Is Less Fun Than You’d Think</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-road-trip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>&amp;gt;Tesla would go through their trip logs&lt;p&gt;After a negative experience several years ago with Top Gear, a popular automotive show, where they pretended that our car ran out of energy and had to be pushed back to the garage, we always carefully data log &lt;i&gt;media&lt;/i&gt; drives.</text></item><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>Tesla&amp;#x27;s response turned off a lot of potential customers who realized that Tesla would go through their trip logs if they made even the slightest critical comment of the company.&lt;p&gt;Oh, you meant to the NYT? No, because they were just driving the car like a normal person would. They weren&amp;#x27;t trying to drive the car [like] a Tesla fanatic would, and it was bizarre for Tesla to go after them for trying to drive the car like a normal car...especially when Tesla spends so much marketing $$$ trying to convince people their cars can replace a normal car.</text></item><item><author>blackbrokkoli</author><text>Holy shit!
Did this have consequences?</text></item><item><author>mertd</author><text>It reads very similar to the infamous NYT review[1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyti.ms&amp;#x2F;W3HSCZ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyti.ms&amp;#x2F;W3HSCZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] Tesla&amp;#x27;s response: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;most-peculiar-test-drive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;most-peculiar-test-drive&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>diebeforei485</author><text>Instead of stopping at the Metz supercharger like the onboard navigation[1] would tell her to, this reporter with an axe to grind decides to do stupid things like charging to 100% to make a clickbaity article.&lt;p&gt;[1] Web version: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;trips&amp;#x2F;#&amp;#x2F;?v=MS_2017_100D&amp;amp;o=Paris,%20France_Paris%20Paris%20Île-de-France@48.856614,2.3522219000000177&amp;amp;s=&amp;amp;d=Mannheim,%20Germany_MA%20KA%20BW@49.4874592,8.466039499999965&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;trips&amp;#x2F;#&amp;#x2F;?v=MS_2017_100D&amp;amp;o=Paris,%20Fra...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>reitzensteinm</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re logging more than just &lt;i&gt;media&lt;/i&gt; drives, otherwise Tesla wouldn&amp;#x27;t magically have the data to put together a PR response denying culpability whenever something goes wrong with Autopilot.&lt;p&gt;Tesla does not hold itself to the same standard of truthfulness it insists on from others. The Top Gear segment was benign compared to Tesla&amp;#x27;s coast to coast FSD boast, designed to extract FCF from selling a product that may or may not eventually exist.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.popularmechanics.com&amp;#x2F;cars&amp;#x2F;hybrid-electric&amp;#x2F;a19649335&amp;#x2F;tesla-says-model-x-in-deadly-crash-was-on-autopilot&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.popularmechanics.com&amp;#x2F;cars&amp;#x2F;hybrid-electric&amp;#x2F;a19649...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Road Tripping Around Europe in a Tesla Is Less Fun Than You’d Think</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2018-tesla-road-trip/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>asdfasgasdgasdg</author><text>&amp;gt;Tesla would go through their trip logs&lt;p&gt;After a negative experience several years ago with Top Gear, a popular automotive show, where they pretended that our car ran out of energy and had to be pushed back to the garage, we always carefully data log &lt;i&gt;media&lt;/i&gt; drives.</text></item><item><author>gamblor956</author><text>Tesla&amp;#x27;s response turned off a lot of potential customers who realized that Tesla would go through their trip logs if they made even the slightest critical comment of the company.&lt;p&gt;Oh, you meant to the NYT? No, because they were just driving the car like a normal person would. They weren&amp;#x27;t trying to drive the car [like] a Tesla fanatic would, and it was bizarre for Tesla to go after them for trying to drive the car like a normal car...especially when Tesla spends so much marketing $$$ trying to convince people their cars can replace a normal car.</text></item><item><author>blackbrokkoli</author><text>Holy shit!
Did this have consequences?</text></item><item><author>mertd</author><text>It reads very similar to the infamous NYT review[1].&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyti.ms&amp;#x2F;W3HSCZ&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;nyti.ms&amp;#x2F;W3HSCZ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] Tesla&amp;#x27;s response: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;most-peculiar-test-drive&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;most-peculiar-test-drive&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>diebeforei485</author><text>Instead of stopping at the Metz supercharger like the onboard navigation[1] would tell her to, this reporter with an axe to grind decides to do stupid things like charging to 100% to make a clickbaity article.&lt;p&gt;[1] Web version: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;trips&amp;#x2F;#&amp;#x2F;?v=MS_2017_100D&amp;amp;o=Paris,%20France_Paris%20Paris%20Île-de-France@48.856614,2.3522219000000177&amp;amp;s=&amp;amp;d=Mannheim,%20Germany_MA%20KA%20BW@49.4874592,8.466039499999965&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.tesla.com&amp;#x2F;trips&amp;#x2F;#&amp;#x2F;?v=MS_2017_100D&amp;amp;o=Paris,%20Fra...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arkh</author><text>&amp;gt;  we always carefully data log media drives&lt;p&gt;So you can easily data log any driver. So any government agency or any &amp;quot;partner&amp;quot; paying enough could have access to this data.</text></comment>