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Re:Tesla factory employees describe grueling work conditions by vkou on Thursday May 18, 2017 @03:47PM (#14370469)
> You can't rush or cut corners with something that will kill people.

Do you have reason to believe that safety-critical features of the Model 3 will not be up to par?

Tesla has a history of mechanical problems with their vehicles, but AFAIK, safety-critical stuff* works just fine. Your door might not open, but your brakes are pretty much guaranteed to work.

* I'm exempting autopilot from this.

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Re:Tesla factory employees describe grueling work conditions by atempthrow on Thursday May 18, 2017 @04:12PM (#14370700)
> > You can't rush or cut corners with something that will kill people.

I worked in Detroit for an automotive company on their software.

I assure you, they rush and cut corners. They iron out the wrinkles in QA and rewrite parts of software a few times. It's not uncommon to have teams (outsourced, the actual employees seem to have reasonable workloads) working 60+ hour weeks regularly on software.

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Re:Tesla factory employees describe grueling work conditions by unprepare on Friday May 19, 2017 @09:08AM (#14375201)
I just declined an offer from Ford on an in house team where everyone is averaging 70 hour weeks; so its not /only/ contractors, but its true, the big 3 use contracting very heavily
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Re:Tesla factory employees describe grueling work conditions by jensv on Friday May 19, 2017 @04:00PM (#14378906)
Better in QA than on the streets.
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