{"id":249,"date":"2012-06-19T14:22:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/?p=249"},"modified":"2012-06-19T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T21:22:40","slug":"speedometer-video-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/speedometer-video-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Speedometer video test&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There have been numerous reports on the ActiveE forums about the <a href=\"http:\/\/forum.bmwactivatethefuture.com\/showthread.php?t=973\">speedometer of the ActiveE (and other German vehicles for that matter) as being grossly overstated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to see this for myself, so to test this, I went ahead and installed my portable GPS in the ActiveE and compared the velocity that it showed on the GPS with the speedometer of my ActiveE.<\/p>\n<p>So, the first test was to do this on surface street speeds.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=f9b335e190&amp;photo_id=7184572959\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=109786\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>As you can see from the video, there is a discrepancy at lower speeds. So, I figured to try this on the freeway&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"225\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"intl_lang=en-us&amp;photo_secret=2bcf0ac983&amp;photo_id=7369865114\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/apps\/video\/stewart.swf?v=109786\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It looks like the folks on the BMW ActiveE forums were right. The car does overstate its speed to the tune of 3-5 mph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been numerous reports on the ActiveE forums about the speedometer of the ActiveE (and other German vehicles for that matter) as being grossly overstated. I wanted to see this for myself, so to test this, I went ahead and installed my portable GPS in the ActiveE and compared the velocity that it showed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/activee\/speedometer-video-test\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speedometer video test&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[87,594,698,699,753],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activee","category-how-to","tag-activee","tag-overstated-speed","tag-speedometer-discrepancy","tag-speedometer-test","tag-test-drive"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pascual.co\/ActiveE\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}