Most of the design tolerances of the Model 3 are already better than any other car in the world. Soon, they will all be better. This is not enough. We will keep

Most of the design tolerances of the Model 3 are already better than any other car in the world. Soon, they will all be better. This is not enough. We will keep going until the Model 3 build precision is a factor of ten better than any other car in the world. I am not kidding. I’d settle for precision beating their previous janky models with a nearly 50% recall rate. Our car needs to be designed and built with such accuracy and precision that, if an owner measures dimensions, panel gaps and flushness, and their measurements don’t match the Model 3 specs, it just means that their measuring tape is wrong. Right, and if their “autopilot” kills them, they were using it wrong. There is a very wide range of contractor performance, from excellent to worse than a drunken sloth. All contracting companies should consider the coming week to be a final opportunity to demonstrate excellence. Any that fail to meet the Tesla standard of excellence will have their contracts ended on Monday. This whole letter reads like a puff piece intended for fanboys and stakeholders to pass around and fantasize about, but three weeks of meeting goals shouldn’t give anyone a head this big. This is from the same guy who just realized he couldn’t automate everything he wanted to, and who the NTSB just booted off a death investigation. The last thing needed here is grandiose talk. Instead of trying to leap from being marginal to the greatest ever, how about trying to meet reasonable goals, safety standards, and work with the NTSB? Instead of trying for Ferrari-esque panel gaps, just do better than the Model S and meet basic industry standards within class.