When Elon destroyed that super car (biography by Vance), he turns to the passenger and says, 'I turned off the insurance yesterday'...
2018-11-10 16:10:01 +0000 UTC
I'm not sure if there is really that much to be easily improved about the "overcomplicated" body without sacrificing safety. Probably that's not just inefficient and bad design, but just a completely different design goal to ALL other car manufacturers. Safety over profit.
Besides, the hard body parts that don't flop around are perfect for robots. To assemble/weld more complicated parts, the robots maybe take a bit longer and need way more complex programming. But that's a software issue and Tesla is very good with software. So maybe it's not such a disadvantage at all...
2018-11-10 11:49:21 +0000 UTC
I saw this Bloomberg video, and I found it very positive. If Tesla is already doing profit with this manufacturing that could be greatly improved, imagine when they will do it. Or it might just have been done to have different material for having the safer car while sacrifying a bit of manufacturability...
