Re:Internal documents reveal the grueling way Tesla hit its ...
by Klathmon on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @03:30PM
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This has happened to every other car company on the planet at one time. Pretending it hasn't is silly.
If you don't want a car that has ever had any production issues at any point in it's life, you don't want a car.
It's like complaining that Intel has low yield numbers for their CPUs, or that some of the apples that your local orchid grows are rotten.
The cars are being manufactured to the correct specs, it's just a different (more manual) way of doing it. If you care about nothing but your car, then you wouldn't give a shit how it's manufactured as long as it's good.
If you have an issue with the end result of these cars, that's another thing. But the FPY has nothing to do with that. A car made to shitty specs and with awful tolerances is going to be awful regardless of whether they made it awful on the first try or the 10th.
Yes.
>> Who is going to fund that? What happens if it causes other issues? How long can you afford to do this?
I don't care. I am not an investor. I am a consumer, a potential customer. I don't care whether the Tesla company lives or dies. I care about the quality of the vehicle I might purchase. Seeing this sort of problem at Tesla is a red flag. I don't want to buy a car made in a factory with such problems.
What really worries me isn't so much the problem, but that Tesla isn't in full panic mode about it. The more defensive they and their supporters are, the more rooted the problem seems. A full shutdown and re-tooling would be a signal that they are a serious company. Musk has the money to do this. Instead we read about bandage solutions. The roots of the problem must be very deep.