Comment by timschmidt
8 months ago
> but he thinks that translates into a god-like ability to do anything and that he's right about everything.
Like when this space youtuber suggested a change to his Mars rocket and he understood, accepted the validity of the idea, and decided to implement it on the spot? Er, I guess that's the opposite of what you said.
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....
> 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
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