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The reduction in size/complexity at Tesla/Apple scale may actually be an overall benefit. Thought experiment: Imagine that the overall material required is cut
by gibolt 6y ago
The reduction in size/complexity at Tesla/Apple scale may actually be an overall benefit.
Thought experiment: Imagine that the overall material required is cut by 10-20% by tons of optimizations and reductions. That means the supply chain and associated energy/costs vanish. If you have a failure rate of less than that (probably much less) scrapping is likely still better.
- fomine3 6y agoUnibody would cut shell materials by 10-20% but there are many other car parts like interior, battery. So entire cut rate won't so high. Also dropping a broken car and building a new car takes manufacturing costs.
- gibolt 6y agoI'm talking about every optimization that reduces repairability. While I'd prefer to be able to fix things, just producing and shipping a whole new unit to a small subset may be less wasteful overall (at that scale) than designing for repairability.