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It seems more likely that this is an example of Elon Musk doing a good job of PR - interacting with a popular social media influencer (Loic has 129k followers)

by kosei 10y ago

It seems more likely that this is an example of Elon Musk doing a good job of PR - interacting with a popular social media influencer (Loic has 129k followers) to drive forward his plan. I would be surprised if this was not something that was already in the works.

dogma1138 10y ago
This is also not a feature that requires much or any engineering effort and can be greenlit and rolled out in an afternoon. So it's very may be that whilst it was some issue that has been known once it gets picked up by a C level exec not to mention a CEO it's not uncommon for simple things to get fixed really quickly. Everyone experienced it with some silly thing like a CEO overhearing some one complaining about a laptop or a coffee machine and the next day there is a new one. This is management 101 do small things that look like you are attentive to your employee and customers that provide QOL improvements but have very little to no real cost attached to them. This is the breakfast in bed or friday flowers equivilent of management.
- hyperliner 10y ago
  >>> This is also not a feature that requires much or any engineering effort and can be greenlit and rolled out in an afternoon. Not so sure. In my experience, anything to do with billing has the potential to extend schedules.
  - dogma1138 10y ago
    Billing rules are often quite easy to modify, any billing system has time and activity tracking even if your customers don't pay for it, it is still tracked just the cost for every time unit for that specific activity/resource is set to zero. I can tell you with near 100% certainty that Tesla is tracking for active (charging) and non-activate (not charging) parking at their charge stations, changing the non-active SKU to a billable one doesn't require any major changes in their billing system.

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It seems more likely that this is an example of Elon Musk doing a good job of PR - interacting with a popular social media influencer (Loic has 129k followers)

by kosei 10y ago

dogma1138 10y ago
This is also not a feature that requires much or any engineering effort and can be greenlit and rolled out in an afternoon. So it's very may be that whilst it was some issue that has been known once it gets picked up by a C level exec not to mention a CEO it's not uncommon for simple things to get fixed really quickly. Everyone experienced it with some silly thing like a CEO overhearing some one complaining about a laptop or a coffee machine and the next day there is a new one. This is management 101 do small things that look like you are attentive to your employee and customers that provide QOL improvements but have very little to no real cost attached to them. This is the breakfast in bed or friday flowers equivilent of management.
- hyperliner 10y ago
  >>> This is also not a feature that requires much or any engineering effort and can be greenlit and rolled out in an afternoon. Not so sure. In my experience, anything to do with billing has the potential to extend schedules.
  - dogma1138 10y ago
    Billing rules are often quite easy to modify, any billing system has time and activity tracking even if your customers don't pay for it, it is still tracked just the cost for every time unit for that specific activity/resource is set to zero. I can tell you with near 100% certainty that Tesla is tracking for active (charging) and non-activate (not charging) parking at their charge stations, changing the non-active SKU to a billable one doesn't require any major changes in their billing system.