EVcast #43: Interview with Nathan Armstrong, President of Motive Industries

Great show guys.

Here is a link to the Tesla crash pictures

http://www.hey.com/2008/07/25/worlds-first-tesla-crash-in-san-francisco/

Also, the two telephone interviews were WAY too quiet.  We can hear Bo just fine but the two guys on the phone are too quiet.

yeah the audio quality on the interviews were a bit sucky. I cranked the volume but it was still very muddy. I think you need to find a way to use a landline because as interesting as the interviews were it's an advantage if we can understand what they're saying. I'm just saying :)

WTF??? I agree, Alex was so quiet and muffled (underwater sound) that I had to crank my sound volume to max and still strain to hear him. The problem with that is that this made the hosts' voices so loud it was painful. The Russian accent didn't help matters either.

My apologies for the audio quality on this one.  I no longer have the source file to correct this episode.  It will be fixed before the next interview.

My name is C.C. I am the driver of the Mercedes Benz at the time of the accident. If you want better and more accurate reporting of the story, contact me. -CC.

C.C.

   It would be interesting to hear more about what happened.

Thanks

John C. Briggs

C.C. - please email me at podcast at evcast dot com. Thanks!

Hello Bo,

I am the driver of the Mercedes Benz involved in the accident. I posted a detailed comment about my own account of this accident, which can be found at the below link:

http://www.hey.com/2008/07/25/worlds-first-tesla-crash-in-san-francisco/#comment-1449

I tried to contact you by email, but I cannot figure out what your email address is. Do I really have to sign up as a user first on your website before I can even send you an email?

Also, I have forwarded various pictures of this accident that I personally photographed (not seen before) to Dane Golden, the administrator of the Hey.com website who is also following this same story. Dane says he will soon be uploading my pictures for anyone to see on his Hey.com site.

If you would like to contact me directly for comments, please email me directly at: "cheungcs@aol.com"

Cheers, --C.C.

so let me get this straight, mercedes stoped, for whatever reason, it is normal!, the tesla, slows down, and stops even if close, it was safe and no impact at that moment, the toyota barrels in, distracted like a moron, tesla car knotices and tries to change lanes fast to avoid accident, but not fast enough, toyota nails tesla car, shooting it like a salvo, raised tail because of the impact's force, jutting the teslas already low angle front, low into the mercedes. so there was not issue with the car being silent, no issue about the car being to low, or small, cause there was a gigantic Sclass mercedes benz in front, so even if dwarfed by other cars, it was impossible to miss the mercedes, also the tail lights of the tesla sit HIGH! and had no damage, im sure when you press the brakes they light up, the toyota is at fault. whattever the reason, to not have payed attention, knotice the pic of the accident there are no skid marks from the toyota, it went headlong into the tesla and this one into the mercedes, , but the question, is would this accident have mattered if it had been any other car like a honda civic? or a chevy silverado? or even some one crossing the street? the toyota would still have been distracted and impact some one. a testament, to focusing on the job at hand, when driving DO NOT!!!! put make up, talk on the phone, flirt with people, stare at atractions and distractions, eat, text, kiss, anithing that takes the eyes or more than one of the hands off the wheel.