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That's a single example (which I'm aware of and pretty sure it wasn't just them that said it - I was thinking the same when they took the original route) compar

That's a single example (which I'm aware of and pretty sure it wasn't just them that said it - I was thinking the same when they took the original route) compared with the thousands of counter examples of bad ideas, such as completely unserviceable batteries, vehicle structures which are easy for the factory to make but can't be repaired for moderate-level damage (due to the megacastings rather than individual elements for the same structure), removal of ultrasonic parking detectors, etc....

timschmidt 1y ago
> That's a single example > megacastings Wow, you brought your own counterexample! Cast frames were suggested to Elon by Sandy Munro. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNWYk4DdT_E https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNWYk4DdT_E To quote Sandy: "These guys at Tesla, they take everything you say literally, and then they go basically implement! It's amazing! It is truely to me amazing that these guys can do so much in such a short period of time." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Munro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Munro