> In reality, skilled disassembly is required. Engineers must take apart the cars and put them back together by hand. One misplaced wire can leave engineers puzzling for days over where the problem is, according to a person familiar with the operations who describes the system as cumbersome and prone to quality problems.

I think this is one of the more interesting pieces in the article for me. We all kinda know by now that there are issues around AI handling all driving situations. I think it's interesting to hear Waymo having difficulty with the manufacturing aspect.

It does make a certain amount of sense. Waymo is a company that is mainly trying to solve the AI problem around self-driving cars, but other things can stymie those efforts like assembly. This isn't meant as a dig at Waymo, just more an observation that just because a company is excellent in one area doesn't mean that they will be excellent in all areas and that even excellent companies like Alphabet/Google/Waymo can stumble in new areas.