CBS Admits to "Audio Error" for Adding Engine Noise to Tesla Segment

CBS has admitted to an "audio error" in its 60 Minutes segment on Sunday night in which engine sounds were dubbed over a Tesla electric car.

Robert Sorokanich noticed some unnatural engine sounds during the segment and penned a blog post for Jalopnik that asserted something was amiss.

"It's one thing to dub exciting motor noises over a mundane-sounding car, but to plop engine sounds on a car that most folks realize is nearly silent? That just seems . . . bizarre," he wrote.

Teslas operate entirely on battery power and produce little noise. The segment itself went out of its way to point out that Teslas do not operate on traditional engines. Read more...