"Tesla has basically been the only domestic automaker taking risks and aggressively pursuing manufacturing efficiencies." Sometimes too aggressive which may co

"Tesla has basically been the only domestic automaker taking risks and aggressively pursuing manufacturing efficiencies." Sometimes too aggressive which may come back and hunt them. For example, multiple companies are doing full body casting but Tesla moved very fast and ended up selling cars that now have cracks in them. There is a reason it took others longer time to introduce this in their factories... https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-model-y-owner-finds-scary-cracks-in-gigacast-front-end https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-model-y-owner-finds-scar... The situation is much worse for Chinese manufacturers. Some of these cars are death traps.