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Smartcar – Nest for your Tesla

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It almost seems like this company is in existence to get acquired by Tesla, which I'm not sure will happen. I wouldn't be surprised if Tesla itself implemented everything seen in the video in the Model S's next infotainment/firmware upgrade.

smart car is a well known brand (at least in the UK) of tiny, very efficient cars. They also make a few electric ones too.

http://smart.com/

In the US too. I think this is a bad naming choice for this project.

Note that Tesla doesn't let you grant 3rd party apps access to the API (or that no API yet exists and all this is reverse engineered from the phone app).

So to use this, you would have to hand them your username and password.

My friend works on Tesla's engineering team. He mentioned a while back that they are introducing oAuth. Also, Smartcar has some relationship with Tesla they had meetings or something. Don't know much more.

That's very cool, but I don't know if I'd like to have this feature as a monthly service.

It would be cool if Tesla bought the company and offered the software and support (eve as an extra).

Possibilities are endless and generally speaking, I liked it - very smart project.

I'm not sure about all the predictive stuff. How does the car know when it has to cool the car? I suppose it records at which hours you 'usually' use the car so it turns the air conditioning on. What if I change my schedule one day or I have to stay working until late? The car would be wasting power all the time.

Pretty much what I came to say. The "smart" and "predictive" stuff is good for a handful of people with very predictable routines, who live like... machines. Most of the time, it would actually fail quite miserably. And the power waste would be the least of your problems then...

>> What if I change my schedule one day or I have to stay working until late?

That's where our value comes in. By processing large chunks of information we can determine that your habits on Mondays AM are different from habits on Saturdays at 9AM. And by adding additional layers such as your Google Calendar, we can make those interactions even more accurate.

I've been very inspired by what Nest has done and we're trying to something similar for automotive.

I've got a 2 line cronfile on my raspberry pi that uses Tesla's web API to do roughly the same.

This reminds me of a comment I saw on Drew Houston's ShowHN of Dropbox a few years back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224. The hobbyist coders will always be able to build some hacky solution on their own. The difference here is its building a convenient product everyone can use, not just selling some curl commands.

Then post the two lines, yes ?

I think they're probably going to get sued by mercedez benz who own the trademark on smart car

I wonder if you'll be able to do this kind of stuff with CarPlay

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