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> When it was clear they would miss again, they put up a third production line in a canvas tent, which the NYT quoted as "never heard anything like this ever" u
by Maro 8y ago
> When it was clear they would miss again, they put up a third production line in a canvas tent, which the NYT quoted as "never heard anything like this ever" using what Musk tweeted as "scrap we had in warehouses" to build the cars.
I'm a software guy. Can somebody explain to me how you can build a high-tech auto production line from "scrap"?
- grizzles 8y agoI saw a drone video inside the tent, it looks mostly like service bays inside like you'd find at a small local car place that uses hand jacks. A mix of lift + non lift bays is common in any factory at the end of the line. That fits with my analysis from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17397505 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17397505
- _Microft 8y agoInteresting analysis, thanks for sharing!
- manicdee 8y agoYou can't. GP is completely misrepresenting everything about this situation: not a tent, not canvas, not scrap. Musk's tweet about scrap in a tent was very clearly a joke.
- philipodonnell 8y agoI can't link NYT because I get the paper version and lost my login, but I'm quoting from the paper in front of me: > A tent, about 50 feet high, its taut grey canvas membrane supported by aluminum columns. I don't think it was a joke. The tweet was specifically in the context of trying to convince investors that the cost of that tent production wasn't substantial and by "scrap" he meant equipment they had discarded from their main production lines because they are constantly upgrading them. You can't have it both ways. It was either discarded "scrap" machines they had lying around and he was not joking or machines they bought and he was lying (a.k.a "joking") about it. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt that they really had all that equipment in a warehouse because its been reported they have re-tooled the line several times.
- labcomputer 8y agoThe quote not withstanding, a cursory glance at the website of the manufacturer of the structure (Sprung[1]) would show that the exterior is not canvas. Further, Sprung even lists manufacturing as an application of their structures. Repeating false statements doesn't make them true. [1] http://www.sprung.com/building-components/performance-architectural-membrane/ http://www.sprung.com/building-components/performance-archit...
- manicdee 8y agoThe journalist is conveying a thing they saw using words they are familiar with. cf: Cameleopard vs giraffe, and first sightings of kangaroo or platypus.
- regularfry 8y agoIt probably refers to working equipment they replaced on the main production lines because they wanted something smaller/faster/shinier, but hadn't yet thrown out.