{"id":179218,"date":"2018-04-15T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T02:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/15\/and-elon-musk-is-overrated\/"},"modified":"2018-04-15T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T02:50:00","slug":"and-elon-musk-is-overrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/15\/and-elon-musk-is-overrated\/","title":{"rendered":"And Elon Musk is Overrated"},"content":{"rendered":"

After years of production problems resulting from automation issues that have been documented by legacy automobile manufacturers, Elon Musk has finally admitted that over-reliance robots and automation was a mistake, and has noted that “Humans are underrated<\/a>“.<\/p>\n

This is what happens when someone thinks that they are smart enough to ignore lessons leaned over decades from auto manufacturing across the world:<\/p>\n

In a rare mea culpa for the mercurial billionaire, Tesla <\/a> CEO Elon Musk <\/a> acknowledged that the company has been too reliant on robots for production.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated.<\/span><\/div>\n

\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 13, 2018<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cExcessive automation at Tesla was a mistake,\u201d Musk wrote, responding to a Wall Street Journal reporter\u2019s tweet. \u201cHumans are underrated.\u201d He also talked about this with CBS News\u2019 Gayle King, adding \u201cwe had this crazy, complex network of conveyor belts\u2026.And it was not working, so we got rid of that whole thing.\u201d<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You know, if humans are underrated, and you admit to over-automating your assembly line.<\/p>\n

If you have REALLY<\/b> have learned your lesson, how ending your policy of treating your assembly line workers like complete sh%$<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After years of production problems resulting from automation issues that have been documented by legacy automobile manufacturers, Elon Musk has finally admitted that over-reliance robots and automation was a mistake, and has noted that “Humans are underrated“. This is what happens when someone thinks that they are smart enough to ignore lessons leaned over decades …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[473,450,465,524,721,406,403],"class_list":["post-179218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-auto-industry","tag-employment","tag-labor","tag-manufacturing","tag-robotics","tag-stupid","tag-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}