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If we are to avoid falling back into our dangerous old ways of not having enough spare capacity then we need to have more diversity and competition in supply, p
by kwhitefoot 7y ago
If we are to avoid falling back into our dangerous old ways of not having enough spare capacity then we need to have more diversity and competition in supply, production, and marketing of medical equipment so that health authorities can more easily afford to have excess capacity during the good times in preparation for the bad. Of course sooner would be better but later is not necessarily futile.
And most likely Tesla will probably drop the project entirely as soon as the fuss dies down but that doesn't mean that someone else working on an unconventional approach should necessarily give up just because they won't be in time for this crisis, there will be more crises later.
- gamblor956 7y agoI agree. My issue is with Tesla demand uncritical adulation for a PR project that is being designed without any input from actual users (like the cave submarine that was completely unusable for its stated purpose) on a timeframe that basically ignores the ongoing crisis. We have sufficient manufacturers of ventilators to build up spare capacity after the crisis is over. It is not praise worthy for Tesla to build a luxury ventilator that won't be ready until months or years after this crisis is over (assuming they actually take it to production).