EVDRIVER
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Please stop posting similar or the same info from multiple sources. Your "spamming like" techniques and other actions have already earned you two warmings recently. You are free to post your opinions, links and other "facts" all you like but if you continue to creep toward acting like an astroturfer, etc you are likely going to get warned a third time.
lorenfb said:Another "read" on what Sandy Munro said about the M3 teardown:
Munro praised the Model 3’s driving performance, suspension, skateboard chassis, battery pack, styling, and electronics. However, he lamented finding panel gaps wide enough to stick his finger in, and a noise insulating panel inside the door that was installed backwards. His comparison was brutal: the Model 3 is built “like a KIA in the 90s”.
Despite these harsh words, on balance Sandy Munro’s comments were overwhelmingly positive. He didn’t pull any punches when it came to the egregious build quality problems he encountered. He criticized Tesla for (in his eyes) ignoring auto industry best practices. He was baffled by some design decisions. He even poked fun at Tesla fans, and read some foolish comments from the Tesla forum.
I would point out that it’s not too late for Tesla to improve its build quality. Munro’s hunch is that the build quality issues result from a lack of training for workers on the factory floor. That is something Tesla can fix. I think Tesla will fix it, and then mop the floor with everybody.
Discussion of Tesla’s use of robots is confused, in the same way that people often confuse Autopilot and full self-driving. People confuse the future end goal of full automation with the near-term plan for partial automation.
All factories involve some mix of automation and human labour. Factories can, in theory, be incrementally more automated until the point where no humans are working directly on the assembly line, instead tending to the machines. Let’s call that “full automation”, even though human labour is still required. Partial automation is anything less than that.
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4164835-auto-industry-veteran-ignore-tesla-model-3-peril?auth_param=1adagi:1ddrtft:48224b1ccf612ee206f2e6d7a4814f99&uprof=44&dr=1