I think you misunderstood my comment. I could not agree more with you.

Picking apart a prototype is fair game IMO. While it doesn’t have to be running and driving, when a company is showing off a prototype it should be in a high quality condition. Doesn’t have to be 100% perfect, but man this thing looks beat to hell, clear coat (I assume) flaking off huge panel gaps everywhere, even…

You are joking right? I design and install commercial kitchens. S/S dents are absolutely heinously easy to see and hard to fix. This finish will be the absolute spawn of Satan to maintain.

Nope. This is a display-ready prototype, not a mule. If you’re showing a prototype of a seriously expensive bit of kit to the public, presumably it’s hand-made. It should be perfect. Imperfections on test-bed cars? Sure.

He literally said that the regular production models will likely also be awful, just that it’s not fair to dig too much at pre-production models.

This deserves all the (somewhat aligned) stars

Is it also unfair to pick apart a almost 10 year old car Model S cars from Tesla now for its shoddy build quality?

See, for Celsius, I also use a poem:

While the stars might align, Tesla body panels never will.

Uh.... Is it also unfair to pick apart a almost 10 year old car Model S cars from Tesla now for its shoddy build quality?

I mean it is a prototype so let’s be fair. However, anybody who had some Stainless Steel appliances in their kitchen can attest of how much of a nightmare this is going to be to keep in clean, not dented (SS has very little tolerance to marking)....etc I worked for Peugeot/Citroen back 20 years ago studying aluminum…

Lol, no it isn’t “unfair”. Tesla showed this at a semi-public event and let people record it. How is that unfair?

Why on Earth would you even show this thing in that condition? That mirror is straight up broken. This is supposed to get people excited?

It’s unfair to pick apart a prototype for its specific issue related to non-serial build quality.  General issues and serial build quality will be enough to pick it apart when its time.  

For Celsius, I use a poem:

No mention of Yemen.

India has dramatically upped its computer and software industry while the West was snickering about them being full of call centers, never realizing that the infrastructure necessary for the call centers was also an investment in what comes next.

American software has been losing dominance around the world, although…

There’s nothing Western about that attitude - in fact it’s more common in Asia.

They go to specific parts of Dubai that are much more laid back both culturally and legally due to their dependence on tourism there.

“and relocate their operations to Saudi Arabia and friendly nations”