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Source: Tesla Responsible for Model 3 “Production Hell”

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I'm not sure what this article says that's new other than letting incumbents cast shade in their terms on what Tesla is doing. It seems like Tesla's been pretty up front that they're doing it their way and there will be some chaos, but they are going faster than the incumbents.

There's two ways to look a tooling order for the 2020 model year being started before the Model 3 order. The one way is, "Oh those silly Tesla people have no clue, they'll never get it done at real auto company scale." The other is, "Tesla is changing the pace of the auto industry and if they only let their schedule slip by 50%, they'll leave everyone in the dust." I guess it is in the eye of the beholder.

"Doing it their way" isn't smart if their way isn't actually better, which they haven't demonstrated to date. And judging from this article it seems Tesla is cutting corners (which seems habitual with Tesla) as if you can take a Zuckerberg-style "Move fast and break things" approach to building physical products.

"it'll be so easy to disrupt the ________ industry, those old dinosaurs haven't got a clue what they're doing!"

I've lost count of how many industries have been disrupted in the last decade. What's your point?

Disruption complete! Every car manufacturer has now been forced to respond with radical strategy shifts. Whether the model 3 succeeds massively is just a measure of how _soon_ global car electrification takes place.

I'd be wary of any blog posting "news" from an unnamed source about a publicly-traded company with such a high valuation as Tesla's...

I'm pretty sure I read some of the same lines on SeekingAlpha a few days ago.

Basically, they were too busy to write unit tests.

Sad how all these are just simple bad decisions. Rushing ..

Interesting to see how this post is being sent back to the second page even though it has 43 points in 4 hours. In front are posts with 12 points in 5 hours.

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