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From the article > He soon became concerned VinFast was cutting corners with safety, keeping costs down by employing a small team of inexperienced engineers.

From the article > He soon became concerned VinFast was cutting corners with safety, keeping costs down by employing a small team of inexperienced engineers. > His concerns grew when he heard three of his predecessors had quit after short spells on the project. This to me sounds like the boss issued a task that was impossible to do safely and fired anyone who splashed reality into the mix.

potato3732842 2y ago
A lot of stuff that is perfectly possible to do "safely" is only possible if your head is full of a decade of experience and familiarity with the real world successful solutions to similar problems. People with that knowledge and in an environment were other corners are being cut tend to produce designs that have room for minor revision by other parties as well as corner cutting (i.e. the testing guys pencil whip it) while still actually working well in reality, though perhaps leaving some performance in key areas on the table. If you are fresh out of school and your head is full of ancient knowledge that is in the textbooks and lessons and tidbits of "the new hotness" and you are too reliant on simulation, testing, and other process that is done for process sake in school you are likely to design something that leaves less potential performance in measured areas (weight, cost, etc) but has lot of teething issues on secondary or unmeasured criteria (i.e. the tool and die guys will hate you, your item will wear rapidly in a case that while not average, represents a large number of users, etc) Look at Juicero. It hit the key points, it juiced things, but it was wildly expensive and a bear to manufacture and operating costs were comical because there were no adults in the room to tell the noobs that their weighting of the tradeoffs both expressed and implied wasn't quit right. Here the same sort of inexperienced people were told to produce a suspension befitting a sexy new EV but also to make it cheap. Well they did that, but they also made something that's coming apart at the seams from day 1 and doesn't age gracefully at all and in cases of extreme use results in spectacular failures. You see this sort of pattern in all sorts of technical fields.

potato3732842 2y ago

A lot of stuff that is perfectly possible to do "safely" is only possible if your head is full of a decade of experience and familiarity with the real world successful solutions to similar problems. People with that knowledge and in an environment were other corners are being cut tend to produce designs that have room for minor revision by other parties as well as corner cutting (i.e. the testing guys pencil whip it) while still actually working well in reality, though perhaps leaving some performance in key areas on the table. If you are fresh out of school and your head is full of ancient knowledge that is in the textbooks and lessons and tidbits of "the new hotness" and you are too reliant on simulation, testing, and other process that is done for process sake in school you are likely to design something that leaves less potential performance in measured areas (weight, cost, etc) but has lot of teething issues on secondary or unmeasured criteria (i.e. the tool and die guys will hate you, your item will wear rapidly in a case that while not average, represents a large number of users, etc) Look at Juicero. It hit the key points, it juiced things, but it was wildly expensive and a bear to manufacture and operating costs were comical because there were no adults in the room to tell the noobs that their weighting of the tradeoffs both expressed and implied wasn't quit right. Here the same sort of inexperienced people were told to produce a suspension befitting a sexy new EV but also to make it cheap. Well they did that, but they also made something that's coming apart at the seams from day 1 and doesn't age gracefully at all and in cases of extreme use results in spectacular failures. You see this sort of pattern in all sorts of technical fields.