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Old 03-25-2022, 05:28 PM   #514
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Originally Posted by Traum View Post
Putting my computer programmer hat on, if ICBC has any semblance of a modern relational database system to track their insurance policies (hint -- they have to), it should be dead easy to script out the additional programming logic that will assign the appropriate rebate amount based on the vehicle's fuel type. Fuel type is something that ICBC policies already track, so the data should already be there. I can't imagine how it would take more than a few hours to write that programming code up.

Of course, that's something an ICBC database programmer would know. The thought may not have crossed policy makers' minds since they are not the workers implementing this, or they might have decided against it of whatever reason. But at the implementation level, it is really, *REALLY* easy to do.
The ones making the decisions probably didn't even bother asking the PM's, let alone the devs. If they work in waterfall, that "project" might have taken months when instead they can just do a blanket handout now. Or they just want to appeal to everyone, so EV owners aren't left out
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