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Why does advanced mean theoretically better? From what I've seen from industry discussions, other companies seem to believe that Musk is automating processes at

• Robotbeat 9y ago
  It usually does mean theoretically better. HOWEVER. The fly in the ointment is that increased automation usually only makes sense if you need to produce more cars and can tolerate delays as automation kinks are worked out (some of which may actually require changes in the car design). If you're making 100,000 cars per year per factory line, then very high automation doesn't make a lot of sense, and humans can often be more cost effective (from an opportunity cost perspective). But if you're producing 1,000,000 cars per line, then a lot of automation which wouldn't make sense at lower numbers now all of a sudden does. Tesla is developing some of this automation tech for a 500,000 per year Model 3 line, but where the full automation will really hit its stride is in the Model Y which is supposed to hit 1,000,000 per year from a single factory line. Model Y is supposed to have several design simplifications and modifications to enable more automated production.