What you call laziness I (as an engineer) call it keeping it fucking simple (and cheaper)...which is something my profession has a really difficult time with.

You sound like you shouldn’t be using knives, period. Also, I have a family and still hand wash and sharpen my knives. You’re just lazy and clumsy. The fact that “a little slip of the knife glances off my fingernail” tells me you don’t even us proper technique.I haven’t been cut in years....which was…

You sound like you shouldn’t be using knives, period. Also, I have a family and still hand wash and sharpen my…

We have a ‘17 year model in the ‘elite’ trim level. When we were shopping for a family hauler I thought I would hate this thing. After test driving 9 vehicles and doing a 20 point comparison between models it won hands down. Sure, the steering is a bit sleepy..but I don’t look for driving excitement from the vehicle…

Fuck you and fuck your industry. You know how many times I’ve had to sue my own insurance company to pay the fucking claims they were obligated to pay? THREE. FUCKING. TIMES. Each a different company...because why on earth would I work with anyone I had to sue to do their job. I won all 3 cases, but all at great cost…

If you are capable of forgetting your kid in your car you are not fit to be a fucking parent. 

I don’t...at least in the context you are thinking. Lots of people honestly don’t know that’s what it’s doing....despite the fact this is not a new trend. In my case I thought it wouldn’t be so severe I couldn’t polish it out before getting a self-healing film. If people know it’s trashing their paint and still do…

Depending on how long the extension was and the coverage level...$500-$600 doesn’t seem all that low. I bought a 8 year / 120k bumper-to-bumper Hondacare Warranty from Honda (with 0 deductible) for $1200 for a brand new ‘17 Pilot Elite. We are already out of the basic warranty mileage and it paid for itself already…

They put them on to protect the corners of the air dam from external scraping during shipping and unloading. The middle section of the air dam is still totally vulnerable to scraping and like I said...they collect dirt and sand if you drive around with them with them on.

I am glad I cancelled my reservation last year, on top of the issues surrounding the model 3...the car is butt ugly and it has not been growing on me. 

This is stupid, and it seriously does destroy your clear coat underneath there...no matter what you do to keep it clean. If you took 300 grit sandpaper to your car’s paint for a few seconds...that’s about the damage these things do to your paint if you keep them on for a sustained period of time.


How do I know? I kept…

My god you sound intolerable. You live in a proverbial bubble.

Right, they make top level / big picture decisions and then delegate to the respective orgs. But it seems like this dude’s job was running day to day operations of both development and production. 

It’s similar to the F-35, but not quite the same. In the F-35 world the production line has the capacity to get out of LRIP...if the planes didn’t keep changing, but a lot of the product changes are driven by the customer(s), not internally like Tesla. Also, F-35 IOC is a joke. That’s purely political on the…

Elon was never a true software guy. Yes, he got his start in software but ultimately he needed true software engineers to untangle his rats nest code in his early days. He wrote huge monolithic chunks of code with hard coded interfaces....when there were established practices that specifically solved those issues.

It’s…

That line is played out man. There are consistent, proven manufacturing principles that apply to any industry (and especially the 4 wheeled vehicle industry) they are completely ignoring or are finding out the hard way.

Of course Tesla has different challenges. However, any production engineer worth their salt doesn’t…

I am an Aerospace guy (and R&D at that) but I do deal with the production side of things every now and then.

Off the top of my head:

- Why was the head of design also in charge of production? That’s either a figurehead position or something that would overwhelm even the most capable engineer. Two very different…

Tesla is known as a revolving door in engineering circles.

What they really need to do is poach a lot of production engineering talent already in the US. Their production line reeks of amateurism and mistakes that the automotive IE world has ironed out decades ago.

So every Jeep Cherokee going back to 1984 isn’t an SUV?

Do you have Trump-esq tiny hands? This is the only way this makes sense. 

I am a Jr, and it’s part of my legal name....same goes for lots of kids that share names with their parent (or other ancestor). That’s probably why this exception is allowed.