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Hopefully, with the new charge if you leave your car, you'll see drivers running back to get the car. This is a good indicator of who's almost done.Why not put a mark on your car's roof or windshield like in a shop (with time of arrival)?
Note: It would be nice to have an App showing which slot are in use and what percentage is remaining.
Also to have the possibility to put your car license on a waiting list would be nice.
Unfortunately common sense isn't that common anymore...Well, when I posted the question I did not mean for "the line formed" to literally be "a line of cars". I meant to ask this - how is the sequence order formed and maintained at a full supercharger?
I mean, obviously, some common sense is in order and when you see 1 or 2 cars waiting, it's easy to determine which is which. I am more curious about when three is more than a few people waiting and no psychical line of waiting cars, what then? Do you go ask every parked Tesla if they are waiting?
I'm not even sure why I posted the question. I guess after seeing a few posts about negative experience at various SCs I became curious what the etiquette. Or is there none? Everyone for himself?
Sorry, I guess my post wasn't clear. Yes, in 2012-2013 that's what I would do. I would talk to each of the people waiting patiently in a parked position all over the Barstow parking lot to get a feel for who arrived when. Then I would revisit folks and tell them what I knew. From there a rough pecking order was formalized. This was with 3-6 cars waiting. Never got above that number. Hope this helps.I mean, obviously, some common sense is in order and when you see 1 or 2 cars waiting, it's easy to determine which is which. I am more curious about when three is more than a few people waiting and no psychical line of waiting cars, what then? Do you go ask every parked Tesla if they are waiting?
I dont think they would entertain this as it could easliy be publicized as another negative for EVTesla could fix this easily. They could create a feature on the car that shows your position in a supercharger queue based on Time of Arrival and GPS coordinates. If you were not planning on charging, you could opt out and release your position.
When your position came up based on a free charger, the CID could tell you what stall to go to.
As others have pointed out before, they could also prohibit charging by other cars, in order to keep queue busters from pushing in front.
They certainly have the tech. But hopefully we can all be civil and not need this form of technology to force us to behave acceptably.
How so? Ensuring spots on the general idea of consideration of others, which sadly there is already a major shortage of. ICE holes at gas stations are generally rare but tolerated because gas stations are everywhere. With an EV you often must charge then, so it would ensure a type of policing. Even if I play the devil's advocate, I can't see how others would view as a bad thing for EV adoption.I dont think they would entertain this as it could easliy be publicized as another negative for EV
@aesculus -Did you send this idea to TM yet?Tesla could fix this easily. They could create a feature on the car that shows your position in a supercharger queue based on Time of Arrival and GPS coordinates. If you were not planning on charging, you could opt out and release your position.
When your position came up based on a free charger, the CID could tell you what stall to go to.
As others have pointed out before, they could also prohibit charging by other cars, in order to keep queue busters from pushing in front.
They certainly have the tech. But hopefully we can all be civil and not need this form of technology to force us to behave acceptably.
I was thinking about exactly your idea this morning; it would help with stall pairing too, to keep charging rates as high as possible for everyone. My boss just got an X, but is not the type to spend any time on a forum or researching charging etiquette, so I'm going to have to explain it to him (and then he will likely forget or ignore it anyhow). If your car gave you a message when you pulled into the charger lot, like "Proceed to stall 2 A for charging", or "Estimated wait time is 22 minutes. Tap OK to reserve the next spot in queue", followed up by the Proceed message when a spot becomes open, it would help even newbies like him understand what they are supposed to be doing. Even those of us who rarely see another Tesla charging would benefit, for example if I'm on a road trip to California or Vancouver and have no idea what to do, given it's a situation I've never encountered. I'd be likely to get out of the car and go talk to the others as suggested above, but not everyone will.I did now.
I think everyone should pile onto this request. Maybe it will get some notice from Tesla vs another note from @aesculusAdd to it a bit more smart logic..when your car is navigating to a supercharger, the Tesla servers can put you in a queue and minimize wait time.