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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by hef19898 on Thursday April 25, 2019 @01:40PM (#19750577)
Tesla over estimated the benefits of automation. Maybe they thought that labour costs wouldn't be that much of a factor anyway.
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Re:Tesla Posts Big Quarterly Loss as Its Electric-Car Sales Lag by piccolbo on Friday April 26, 2019 @05:47PM (#19762053)
Musk long ago was talking about his calculations about the physical limits to assembly speed. β€œthe output is going to be volume times density times velocity.” https://electrek.co/2016/09/15/elon-musk-confident-that-tesl...

A genius no doubt. I will see you all on Mars.

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