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by stetrain 2228 days ago
Chinese labor? That's the machine that built their most recent machine that builds the machine.

Over-indexing on fancy production automation is part of what made the Model 3 launch so painful for them, as admitted by Elon himself. They probably could have had a much happier path spending less capital on a slower, more traditional production ramp-up.