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by treis 2981 days ago
I think it's more "design tolerances" != "manufacturing tolerances". Tesla could design their body gaps to be 1mm but that's meaningless without the ability to manufacture them to that tolerance consistently. Tesla's quality problems are clearly a production and not a design issue. No engineer at Tesla said "Hey, let's design the model 3 with gigantic body gaps".