My dad has one, it's a pretty cool car but when I want to take a road trip of 1,200 in a day it's not gonna do it. It's great for 90% of the driving I do, but that final 10% I need something else.

"Tesla. When hiring a human is too expensive."

They still have 3000 workers in the factory.
When he says it's the future of manufacturing in America, very high levels of automation is the only way to compete with cheap labor available in China, etc.

Did you know that the *day* of manufacturing used to be information available to the dealer and customer? It was found (statistically significant) that cars made on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday were much less likely to have a problem than cars made on a Monday or Friday. So the consumers would choose the better ones only and dealers were left with large stock of Monday-Friday cars. To solve this "problem", all auto makers got together and decided to make the day of manufacture secret.

Robots don't care what day it is.

I hope they pay their human workers well.

I'd never heard the myth about the Monday/Friday cars before.

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