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Re:Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its ... by gamblor956 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:55PM (#17812048)
Nobodies saying that other cars are defect free. But what they are saying is that Teslas have more defects than other cars, which is a problem--especially when they have yet to scale up to meaningful production quantities.

Having this many defects with this few cars made indicates serious production quality control issues, which just gets worse as production scales.

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Re:Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its ... by Klathmon on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:02PM (#17812113)
Why do people think it's easy to make perfect cars in small numbers?

I would assume that defects will go down as they scale up, as things will become less manual and more automated, and they find the common problems and fix them at manufacturing time.

Are there other car companies that started from nothing that went a different direction? Did they start with nearly perfect cars then get progressively worse as they scaled up? Did they plan to mass manufacturer cars?

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Re:Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its ... by extrapickles on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @02:36PM (#17812428)
The Model 3 is still roughly in its first year of production and I would expect it to have more defects that need rework than a car that has been made for 10.

They don’t state in the article that the quoted facts about other automakers are for cars in their first model year.

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