> When in actuality, all of these stories seem to indicate that he's incompetent at it. Total nonsense. Multiple engineers from inside and outside his companie

> When in actuality, all of these stories seem to indicate that he's incompetent at it. Total nonsense. Multiple engineers from inside and outside his companies have talked highly of him as an engineer. > But Elon Musk's decisions are "Lets have an automated factory line, and I'm planning the factory will only have 30,000 workers". Yes. He made a mistake. How horrible, he should be executed. He addmited the mistake and has analyzed why it happened and is now trying to avoid that mistake. If you don't risk things and don't try to push the boundaries then you want achieve anything. > and now his financials are a mess and he has to build a Tent in the parking lot to house all of the extra production lines. And now people wonder why their Model 3 / Model Y have paint issues or other quality-control defects (Wompy Wheels) Are you a time-traveler from 2017 or something? Like literally is everything you know a few news articles from 2017 and that has formed your total opinion? Tesla has done extensive renovation on the paint shops in Fremont, those were older paint shops. Paint quality was an issue and is now very good. Paint quality from China are excellent. Austin and Berlin will both have newest generation paint shops that should be excellent as well. Overall the drive train, electronics and suspension of Tesla have been very reliable and have a good reputation.