Anybody have details on the Model 3 production bottlenecks and resolutions?
Tesla Misses Model 3 Production Goals
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#12What were the targets? Apparently 1500 model 3s. That might just be a months delay in startup; we'll know for sure in 3 months.
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I’d much less rather live in a world of ads, because that’s exactly what created the perverse incentive to press all emotional buttons possible in order to get more eyeballs/ad impressions (see: fakenews epidemic).
People who produce good content expect to be paid for their labors. Do you have a better business model than ads (which incentivize twisting wording around to create emotional-button-pressing, and therefore mouse-clicking, content) or for-pay (which is incentivized by paying customers who are actually interested in good information)?
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you're on hacker news and you don't know how to get around the paywall?
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#15Based on his track record, Musk often sets unrealistic timeline goals (and unrealistic engineering goals, but he usually meets those). This has happened multiple times with both Tesla and SpaceX, not surprised this happened.
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why don't you subscribe? I see a WSJ article on the front page of HN maybe once a week.
It's ~$20 a month. Do you really think I'm going to pay ~$220/yr so I can read articles on WSJ once in a while?
Seems like there is an unaddressed business opportunity for a per-article micropayment option.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why don't you subscribe? I see a WSJ article on the front page of HN maybe once a week.
It's ~$20 a month. Do you really think I'm going to pay ~$220/yr so I can read articles on WSJ once in a while?
Maybe I'm not savvy enough but I don't really see what they offer over free publications like Reuters or Bloomberg. I've been tempted to subscribe to NYT and/or The Economist in the past but they have less meaningful competition in my opinion.
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#18This isn't news, it's gossip. ~200 instead of ~1500 means the bootstrapping is a little off schedule.
It's stories like this and the attitude that they're important which gets us very destructive behaviors like putting production quota ahead of quality. Production misses are news when they're for substantial cause. Like a 10% miss for an S or X might be news.
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#19Actual source: http://ir.tesla.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=1042449 OT: Sad how difficult it was to find this. The media avoids linking to primary sources. For example, Engadget's 3 paragraph article contains no less than 5 links back to engadget.com and not a single mention of this source.
This is a press release which was likely delivered to wsj et al through a wire service they pay to deliver them piles and piles of press releases. Nobody quotes those as sources because nobody but news organizations that pay for them has access to them. A press release is also a rather bad primary source unlike, say, a research paper or a blog post.
Re: Tesla Misses Model 3 Production Goals
#20This isn't news, it's gossip. ~200 instead of ~1500 means the bootstrapping is a little off schedule. It's stories like this and the attitude that they're important which gets us very destructive behaviors like putting production quota ahead of quality. Production misses are news when they're for substantial cause. Like a 10% miss for an S or X might be news.
Yes, but it is news for investors. Missing productions goals as a startup is different than missing production numbers as a public company that is arguably quite overvalued. It matters because if it effects their share price, that can have important downstream effects on their eventual ability to execute (e.g. secure more loans).
Edit: I am not trying to say that Tesla should be punished, but am specifically addressing that it is, in fact, news.