From my understanding, Tesla has been offered help by many major automotive manufacturers such as VW, and rejected it. Perhaps that was foolish in hindsight, s

From my understanding, Tesla has been offered help by many major automotive manufacturers such as VW, and rejected it. Perhaps that was foolish in hindsight, since most of their quality, workmanship and repairability problems stem directly from having to learn (through trail-and-error) all the same things the other manufactures learned long ago. The parallels with McDonalds taking Chipotle under their wing to teach supply chain management, distribution, food safety and more are undeniable. Chipotle's founders famously scoffed at learning _anything_ from McDonalds... which may have resulted in the numerous food safety handling issues they had a few years back (not washing raw produce that was transported through multiple handling facilities and then into stores), and legendary portion control variance (totally depends who makes your burrito... it may weigh a 1/2 lb, or 2lbs... a total coin flip). It's difficult to scale these complex organizations - why make it harder on yourself? Learn from other people's mistakes and try not to repeat them. foisting large insurance bills onto Tesla customers because Tesla couldn't design their car to be repairable, even by Tesla themselves - doesn't seem fair either.