Elon believes the rate of producing cars can be optimized: "a slow to medium walk is 1 meter per second, a fast walk is 1.5 m/s, the best car factories in the world are doing 0.2 m/s. You should be able to have cars exit at least walking speed. This shouldn't be so crazy. The density improvement should go from 2-3 per cent to 20 or 30 percent of the volumetric density being optimal."





By comparing the design of a factory to that of a SoC or an advanced computer - where the focus lies on improving clock speeds and data transfer of RAM to SSD or internal CPU cache - the potential of improvement on production is very high. "With significantly less engineering effort, we can make dramatic improvements to the machine that makes the machine," concluding that computer engineers should work on building the factory of the future, "once you explain this to a first grade engineer student, their light bulb goes on... [manufacturers] spend a huge amount of effort trying to get a fraction of a percent of improvement on the product itself, but actually that same amount of effort would yield a greater result if you focus on building the machine that builds the machine. A lot of engineers don't realize that this is possible and they basically think they're operating according to these invisible walls.We just need to explain to them those walls don't exist. It's going to be pretty amazing."





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After certain owners raised concerns related to the Model X, Elon Musk was spending nights at the factory and personally supervising the production line to iron out some quality control problems plaguing the vehicle. At the shareholder's meeting , he even faulted himself for putting too much technology all at once into one product,Elon said.he added.According to Musk, the vehicle's software in interpreting the signals from sensors and the operation of the doors has been particularly difficult to refine,he insisted, confirming the next couple of software updates will make the doorsDuring the last couple of months he spent at the Fremont factory, Elon realized that the true problem in accelerating and refining production is building, in other words the factory. Just like designing and building the Model S from scratch, the same approach should be used in building the machines at the factory.He then started rationalizing this by doing what he loves best - applying physics' first principles.