Re:Tesla’s New Car Smell
by muglug on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:07AM
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Tesla has been designing and producing road-worthy vehicles for 14 years. If they're in startup-hair-on-fire mode right now, something is very wrong.
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Which new automaker of the past 40 years do you compare them to as far as measuring what is wrong?
Re:Tesla’s New Car Smell
by majormajor on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:21AM
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Hyundai turned their quality around pretty massively in 10 to 20 years after entering the US market. So is our new bar for Tesla "do they run out of money before they can replicate what Hyundai did"? Doesn't seem like shooting for the stars.
Seems like blind replication isn't the answer alone ( http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207540701223493... ), which is unsurprising, but Tesla's sales targets and their current production line process as-reported seem at odds.
This stuff is very well-studied and making basic errors seems like a problem of hubris coming from a software industry that's in a much less mature state.