Talking Tech with Elon Musk!

a new graphics card or CPU. It's initially expensive, um, etc., but. then over time that price goes down and people wonder: do you have automation? do you have people? It's like we have both. um, you know, it's like a cyborg but like an integrated sidewalk. Which yeah, actually one of the biggest limitations for us is being able to hire enough people, that's what I was going to ask, so there's a lot of workers parking, there's a lot of parking here, yes, if you have a lot of robots and a lot of people in the factory, what do the people do that the robots can't do?

Do you have a ratio in your head, maybe in terms of people versus machines? Do you know that it varies greatly depending on what part of the production process? Well some parts are automated between 80 and 90 and then some parts of are like uh only 10 to 20 or what are those what are those parts that humans do better than humans are really good at adaptation um and rapid evolution and they like it. doing little things like delicate things like that um like for the general assembly like one of the The mistakes that we made, that was a pretty big mistake, was trying to automate the general assembly, which is where the pieces come together, you know, some of Things are like trying to connect a hose that's kind of hanging around. you look and think that the robot is going to find the hose, grab it and then connect it to another hose at that point, it's very difficult, yes, like a person can go well, they're done, I understood you, yes, that's a long time ago sense, yeah, and it's like when you see it it's like wow, it's super super obvious and then we try to get the robots to do this and it's like the robots like to grab the wrong thing and try to stick it here and it's like oh, the hose was here when the rover threw it was here and now it's trying to grab air and then it crashes into the car it's like you don't want us yeah it was a comedy virus uh tragedy of ours like personally you could say like this thing needs to connect to that thing and then however they come a person can figure it out the robot would be like uh and then as far as the overall tesla master plan is what it was originally called so you start with the volume low. high priced roadster, then you move on to the higher volume, lower priced model to model three, as far as I know, that's where the master plan ended, yeah, that was like the first part, yeah, I mean we went into the model x, which, uh, you know, was that one.

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nology but we got a little distracted from our mission which is to advance the cores of electric vehicles um and it probably set us back a little bit with the the model 3 as well, so I guess my last question here would be in regards to the first part of Tesla's master plan coming to an end. Now it's just a matter of steering the ship toward new opportunities?

See, there aren't many companies that are making a 35,000 electric car, a quarter-million dollar supercar, and a semi-truck, and doing them all very well, do you see yourself keeping calm and picking your options here and there? Yeah, that's why, um, what I'm saying. It's really a difficult strategic decision between the focus and wanting to make a bunch of different models like we, I think we want to try to make two at the same time, like we only made one at the same time. time before make two and then and then um if we get it, if you're good with that, then we could try to make three at a time, like a lot of other manufacturers, they'll make like you know, 12 at a time, yeah. so if they are much bigger than us, weird, awesome, yeah, I wish you the best of luck and thank you for taking the time to sit down, yeah, thank you, thank you, okay, great, I appreciate it.