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"TeslaBot" and "Elon" ? Aren't they poking a bear with these naming choices? Or is Tesla okay with this?
As a user I find it mildly offensive. Elon himself probably would laugh it off. Not going to use this as I find the exploitation of the name kind of gross. Maybe in 100 years if he’s not around then fine... but for now it’s too soon. “Tesla” is a separate issue and different.
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Passage AI is using Smartcar.com (disclosure: my company) to build TeslaBot. We do the work facilitating OAuth2 and permission scopes so that developers do not need to handle usernames or passwords.
However Tesla doesn’t provide a way to grant a token to a 3rd party so you (your application) would still need my tesla account credentials. How are you solving this?
there are sites out there which claim security to generate tokens for you but I am not going to even begin to suggest them.
The problem with doing this with Teslas, as I have had one for years and thought about building this, is trusting someone else to hold your credentials for your car. There is no authorization scoping and anyone with the credentials can find the car, unlock it, get in and drive it away. Also, plenty of mischief as well like opening the sun roof, the trunks, flashing the lights and honking the horn. I wish they had pro…
> anyone with the credentials can find the car, unlock it, get in and drive it away While the first three are true, you can't actually drive the car without an authorized key. Adding a new authorized key requires an existing authorized key. However, if you have a Model 3 and keep a valet key card in your car, then yeah anyone who can unlock your car can also drive it.
Typing “please lock my car” seems like so much more effort than tapping “lock” in the app.
I do not have a Tesla, and I do not know what is available out there in terms of managing a Tesla from a remote location. But I am curious about using the chat bot-format for a status monitor application like this. What value does it provide to the user that is not fulfilled by an application just displaying the statuses to the user? I get that in this case everything is handled inside of Facebook Messenger, and to s…
I once wrote a chat bot for a printer (think big photocopier with network printer functionality operated by student body of ~10 students and used by ~2000 students). It had simple commands for showing the state of consumables or monitoring budget spent (calculated based on spent consumables). But the real value came from the chat bot requesting actions ("yellow toner at 12%, verify replacement is in storage", "A3 pap…
I do not have a Tesla, and I do not know what is available out there in terms of managing a Tesla from a remote location. But I am curious about using the chat bot-format for a status monitor application like this. What value does it provide to the user that is not fulfilled by an application just displaying the statuses to the user? I get that in this case everything is handled inside of Facebook Messenger, and to s…
Chatbots are CLIs. (1) (1) https://yagudaev.com/posts/chatbots-are-just-command-line-in...
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I once wrote a chat bot for a printer (think big photocopier with network printer functionality operated by student body of ~10 students and used by ~2000 students). It had simple commands for showing the state of consumables or monitoring budget spent (calculated based on spent consumables). But the real value came from the chat bot requesting actions ("yellow toner at 12%, verify replacement is in storage", "A3 pap…
Thank you for sharing. I have always considered chat bots to be passive, but this opened my mind. Maybe I am narrow minded...
I'm aware that some people do not care but for me the fact that it uses Faceboook messenger is an immediate non-starter for me.
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> anyone with the credentials can find the car, unlock it, get in and drive it away While the first three are true, you can't actually drive the car without an authorized key. Adding a new authorized key requires an existing authorized key. However, if you have a Model 3 and keep a valet key card in your car, then yeah anyone who can unlock your car can also drive it.
I don't think that's true? You can enable keyless driving with just a Tesla account credentials.