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Free PR nothing else (and nothing wrong with that). Those engineers didn't call up the marketing/pr dept and ask for a professional video crew to show up - "cau

• Robotbeat 7y ago
  It’s more than that. Tesla engineers themselves probably are itching to help. Check out GE’s workers getting mad that the company wasn’t helping to make ventilators. People join companies like Tesla and SpaceX because they want to be challenged, have a bias for action (of course, everything still needs to be qualified), and make the world a better place. In a global pandemic that can be helped by addressing a shortage of manufactured stuff, engineers aren’t going to want to just sit on their hands if there’s a chance their efforts could be helpful. It’s not just corporate PR. It’s not just Elon Musk. It’s also these workers wanting to help the world.
  • op03 7y ago
    That's pretty much what Trump and his team say too. It's all PR to me, until they are standing next to their product, in use, saving lives.
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    • xiphias2 7y ago
      That would be an unwise decision. Doctors can be replaced with other doctors, but if an engineer working on the ventilator gets sick, and possibly infects the whole team, they are hard to replace, as other engineers don't have the experience and expertise that they got in the last couple of weeks (and maybe years).