First I want to thank everyone who has contributed to the ModelXTracker.com system. We currently have over 2,300 records in the system which I estimate to be over 10% of the total reservations for Model X. Paul has done I great job of building the application and we recently have launched Model3Tracker.info which is growing fast as the word spreads about this application.
We try to review the data on a regular basis and correct information where we can. For examples I spend the last several days correcting dates where people entered 2015 when obvious they meant 2016. I also recently went through and contacted several users who had inadvertently entered a five seat model when they had really ordered a six seat model. Several five seat orderors got excited when they discovered a 5 seat car was being delivery when in reality it was a data entry mistake.
There is a couple of areas where we would like your help with. First is the VIN number, there has been around 1-2% of the users who obfuscate (mask) their VIN, I guess because they figure the VIN is a piece of sensitive data. These individuals seem to think that a VIN number is like a Credit Card or Social Security Number, which it is not. No sensitive information can be pulled on the owner of the car with a VIN, just technical information about the vehicle itself. The VIN is displayed in the window of the car for all to see. Therefore I ask when your car is assigned a VIN please update ModelXTracker with either the whole VIN or at least the last 5 digits. For those who have already entered a masked VIN please update with a valid VIN. This will save me from having to send out individual requests to update the VIN as it is a lot of work. As most of you know we rely on a valid VIN to keep the Dashboard up-to-date.
Next, where both the city and state are optional fields we recommend you enter this information. We use this information to generate the World Map of Tesla Cars. If you don't enter this information it ends up going on the map in the center of the region or if you only put state in the center of the state and requires extra manual work to get it to look right. in general with just a city and state it is doubtful if anyone could track you down, especially since we don't display your name with the record on only screen or on any report. We don't even collect your actual name just your screen identification.
It would make our life a lot easier if you could provide an unmasked VIN and would make the system data more valuable to all if you entered your City and State.
There is only a couple of us providing assistance for these two application (ModelXTracker and Model3Tracker) and this is just volunteer work. After all we have real jobs to go to.
Thank you for your assistance on this matter.
We try to review the data on a regular basis and correct information where we can. For examples I spend the last several days correcting dates where people entered 2015 when obvious they meant 2016. I also recently went through and contacted several users who had inadvertently entered a five seat model when they had really ordered a six seat model. Several five seat orderors got excited when they discovered a 5 seat car was being delivery when in reality it was a data entry mistake.
There is a couple of areas where we would like your help with. First is the VIN number, there has been around 1-2% of the users who obfuscate (mask) their VIN, I guess because they figure the VIN is a piece of sensitive data. These individuals seem to think that a VIN number is like a Credit Card or Social Security Number, which it is not. No sensitive information can be pulled on the owner of the car with a VIN, just technical information about the vehicle itself. The VIN is displayed in the window of the car for all to see. Therefore I ask when your car is assigned a VIN please update ModelXTracker with either the whole VIN or at least the last 5 digits. For those who have already entered a masked VIN please update with a valid VIN. This will save me from having to send out individual requests to update the VIN as it is a lot of work. As most of you know we rely on a valid VIN to keep the Dashboard up-to-date.
Next, where both the city and state are optional fields we recommend you enter this information. We use this information to generate the World Map of Tesla Cars. If you don't enter this information it ends up going on the map in the center of the region or if you only put state in the center of the state and requires extra manual work to get it to look right. in general with just a city and state it is doubtful if anyone could track you down, especially since we don't display your name with the record on only screen or on any report. We don't even collect your actual name just your screen identification.
It would make our life a lot easier if you could provide an unmasked VIN and would make the system data more valuable to all if you entered your City and State.
There is only a couple of us providing assistance for these two application (ModelXTracker and Model3Tracker) and this is just volunteer work. After all we have real jobs to go to.
Thank you for your assistance on this matter.
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