I also saw the 60min ad that had ice sound dubbed in and thought, "that's not right ..." But chocked it up to their stupidity, and need to draw attention to the piece and sell more advertising (it's all about money).
There were several that noticed the error, as I found a newswire on it, see http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/04/weekend-yet-another-60-minutes-screw This Weekend, Yet Another "60 Minutes" Screw-Up Apr. 1, 2014 ... It's an electric car, after all. It shouldn't sound like a Corvette ... There was a newswire on BBC Top-Gear's Mercedes-Benz EV review, but I past on it, as it was a rehash of the TG's episode from last year, see http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Mercedes-SLS-AMG-Electric-Drive-on-BBC-America-Top-Gear-tp4664351p4664549.html EVLN: Mercedes SLS AMG Electric Drive on BBC-America Top Gear Aug 03, 2013 In typical fashion, TG enjoyed the high performance Mercedes-Benz ice model first with lots of vroom-vroom bravado ice-sounds, then they switched to the EV model: dead quiet ... There seems to be a preoccupation n this use of ice noise to sell EVs, see http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-VW-e-up-EV-ad-uses-beatbox-guy-Sahin-s-ice-noises-video-tp4666936.html EVLN: VW e-up! EV ad uses beatbox-guy Sahin's ice noises (video) Dec 27, 2013 I have another one from a different beatbox guy selling Focus Electrics I will post later to the evdl archive later. Wouldn't it be analogous to, during those early days when horseless carriages were appearing on roads, to making them whinny like a horse as it went by. Later, when EV historians go through the evdl archives looking at this transition period of EV incorporation into society, they will laugh at all that silliness. {brucedp.150m.com} - On Tue, Apr 1, 2014, at 08:08 AM, Bill Dube wrote: > I assumed that it was the chase car that made the noise (on the 60 > Minutes segment.) It was unfortunate because the Tesla makes no noise > going highway speeds. > > On 3/31/2014 8:06 AM, Bob Bath wrote: > > A bit off-thread here, but I haven't seen anything much more STUPID than > > CBS dubbing in sound of a combustion vehicle racing car on the segment on > > Elon Musk and the Tesla. > > ... > > On Sunday, March 30, 2014 10:59 PM, Thos True <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great to see that there are other kids in the world who have a Dad > > (somewhat) like the one I had! > > (Great ad effort too!) - -- http://www.fastmail.fm - The professional email service _______________________________________________ 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)
