This video shows about the status quo for current level of automation of car manufacturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TubOzvqOCmI https://www.youtube.com/

This video shows about the status quo for current level of automation of car manufacturing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TubOzvqOCmI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TubOzvqOCmI As you can see starting at 12:00 or so, humans are everywhere for wire harness installation and final assembly. Tesla wishes to make wire harnesses drastically simpler for Model Y and wishes to automate final assembly as well. Many industry experts think that automating to that degree is a fool's errand. A lot of the pain Tesla is experiencing in ramping up is by trying to automate things the industry normally doesn't. If they can get through this initial period and make this higher level of automation actually work smoothly, they'll have a significant edge. If.