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Re:Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car by waterlesscloud on Sunday February 17, 2013 @03:34AM (#5234609)
He gave precise numbers that were incorrect, often by a significant margin. He claimed these were from his notes.

Rather than an error of memory, I think it's far, far more likely he just made them up to create an illusion of accuracy that he simply did not do the work to record.

Re:Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car by kybernetikos on Sunday February 17, 2013 @06:53AM (#5234958)
You're talking about how long he charged for?

You're prepared to take Musk's interpretation of his logs (which we know were wrong about whether the car would move or not - the flat bed operator corroborates Broder) over Broders notes.

I'm familiar enough with logs telling you things different to what you expected to not think it's all that cut and dried. In fact, our QAs use stop watches and keep notes, and we trust those over what the software thinks is happening for certain kinds of issues.

Re:Winter chills limit range of the Tesla Model S electric car by taligent on Sunday February 17, 2013 @05:24AM (#5234827)
> Rather than an error of memory, I think it's far, far more likely he just made them up

And it's impossible to tell either way. So clearly the over the top attitude of Musk was unwarranted.