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wil421 on July 16, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Tesla employees say they took shortcuts, worked th...

It seems like another shortcut they took was over automation. Looks like some areas are better off with a human. Can robots apply tape?

api on July 16, 2019 [–]

The general contention among all the manufacturing people I've talked to or read is that Tesla went way too crazy with automation and wasted a lot of money. They vastly overestimated the capabilities of current manufacturing automation tech at scale.

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