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As a student ~ 7 years ago i had a summer job at an Audi assembly line. At the first place I worked there you had roughly one person every 10 or 15 meters or so
by sonium 10y ago
As a student ~ 7 years ago i had a summer job at an Audi assembly line. At the first place I worked there you had roughly one person every 10 or 15 meters or so appart, mainly restacking the supplies for welding robots. So there was really not that much left to automate. The other place I worked however was more manual. My job was to connect the fuel lines, which took me about 2 days to learn since it required some serious coordination effort with a weired tool. I can see that they didn't automate this, because the location was at that point hard to reach and they had about five different versions depending on engine type. Maybe in the case of Tesla things are also easier to automate since they are less customized then traditional cars (where you have a plentora of options just for the engine alone).
- RealityVoid 10y agoMaybe one of the factors is "automating the automation" in that automation is possible for many(most) of the processes, but there is a high cost to this automation. Streamlining this into better building blocks might make it easier to adapt than ever before. I have experience with car software and there are many, many, maany ways things that could be improved over here.
- ianleeclark 10y agoIn terms of your comment about "automating the automation" being not done due to a high cost of the automation, in Economics we have something called competitive advantage which gives explanation as to why we may use humans rather than robots for tasks like these.