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I can agree on that. I guess it is the natural speech that is itching me.
Thank you for sharing. I have always considered chat bots to be passive, but this opened my mind. Maybe I am narrow minded...
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 some extent there is interaction that provides a value to the user such as the range calculation described in another comment by sahaskatta.

But I am curious about other situations where a chat bot provides an extra value, not only considering this application?

Also confusing when there is a vehicle in the Halo series called Mongoose. Confusing, confusing...
Re:Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @01:53PM (#14921955)
Or add something like this to your .bashrc

function bt() { java -jar /path/to/bt-launcher.jar -m "magnet:xt=urn:btih:$1" -d /$HOME/Downloads }

Re:Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @11:12AM (#14920254)
Talks about reviewing code, mentions a closed source application...
Re:Show HN: Bt – BitTorrent library in Java 8 on Thursday August 03, 2017 @04:25AM (#14917884)
What things that makes you paranoid can a "fancy GUI" do in the background that an application with a CLI cannot also do in the background?
Re:Tallest Lego building with 4 pieces? on Monday May 29, 2017 @06:21PM (#14441811)
"My daughter asked me"
Re:Studio Ghibli API on Thursday March 30, 2017 @06:38PM (#13999514)
Couldn't agree more. I see exactly _no_ potential use cases for this.
Re:Explain Shell on Wednesday March 29, 2017 @07:20PM (#13991520)
Not really need an API to quickly build a tool for this. Could as well just send a proper request and parse the response, not too much of extra work for this service.