The device might be sensitive to the electromagnetic fields your car emits.
On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:07 AM, Bill Dennis via EV <[email protected]> wrote: > My wife has been wearing a Fit Bit device, which tracks both the number of > steps she takes and the number of floors she climbs daily. An odd thing is > happening though: when I drive her home from work in my EV, a 1500-ft (450 > m) ascent, the device falsely gives her credit for about 7 floors climbed. > Yet when we make the trip in one of our ICE cars, it registers no such > floor-climbing credit. My first thought is that maybe the stiffer > suspension on the EV is causing more vibration and fooling the device into > thinking that she's walking--does that sound plausible? Or are there other > possibilities anyone could think of? We've already tried removing the > device from her belt and putting it in her purse for the duration of the > ride, but it still gives her the credit. I mean, I know that my EV is > great, but I don't think she's getting healthier just by riding in it. :) > > Bill > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > > -- www.electric-lemon.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140911/b298a049/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)
