> I suspect the first cars that they sell will roll off the VP tools and not off the main lines anyway.
There a story a couple of months ago about the fact that they've saved a lot of time by going straight to the main production lines rather than building a testing line first?
Is this a good plan? Time will tell but I'm sure glad I'm not involved. :S
> Let's recap: Tesla's flawed Model X launch was partly due to not taking the time to adjust for problems identified in the soft-tooling phase of pre-production. The lesson Tesla learned? Don't bother with soft tooling for the Model 3.
Wow. Is it just me or does that sound like "The unit tests kept failing and made us miss a deadline. No more unit tests!"
There a story a couple of months ago about the fact that they've saved a lot of time by going straight to the main production lines rather than building a testing line first?
Is this a good plan? Time will tell but I'm sure glad I'm not involved. :S
Sources:
http://www.newsweek.com/tesla-skips-traditional-manufacturin...
http://autoweek.com/article/green-cars/tesla-wont-test-model...
Edit: From the second link:
> Let's recap: Tesla's flawed Model X launch was partly due to not taking the time to adjust for problems identified in the soft-tooling phase of pre-production. The lesson Tesla learned? Don't bother with soft tooling for the Model 3.
Wow. Is it just me or does that sound like "The unit tests kept failing and made us miss a deadline. No more unit tests!"