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There’s automated guide systems for rubber-tire vehicles too. Some BRT systems use them, driver barely steers unless they need to go off course. Rubber-wheels do have some pretty substantial benefits for end-of-line turnaround and storage. Plus, if they use off-the-shelf straddle-carrier chassis, they are all have…

Excuse me, is this elevator going to the right?

The iPhone production line employs something like 100,000 people, so it’s not that Apple automates the entire production line, but there obviously is a lot of automation present. What they DO have, however, is an absolute mastery of the supply chain, and a vendor base with vast capacity and capability.

Meant to say that GAAP cash flow from operations during the quarter was $150 million. I’ve adjusted the post to better reflect that.

It’s Jalopnik. They try to talk finances but unfortunately, don’t know finances as well as they know cars. But F for effort.

It’s not. It was a zero risk zero interest loan!

They’re revenue until the orders get cancelled, and then they’re losses.

For years I struggled with excessive daytime sleepiness despite getting 7-8 hours of sleep most nights. Sleep studies ruled out apnea, I avoided caffeine after 4pm and alcohol after 7pm whenever possible, and usually woke up before my alarm went off feeling well rested...the problem was that the “2:30 feeling” hit me…

That’s not a very noble thing to say.

Wow. For someone who failed to comprehend that there were multiple floors in this building you’re being pretty harsh on the writer...

There is actually a good story here, though, for Bay Area readers who haven’t yet pulled equity out of their $1.5 million three-bed, two-bath homes to buy a Model X. That trip from Fremont to Reno (ie, the typical Orinda-dweller’s weekend Tahoe dash): any range anxiety? Did the mountain driving diminish range? Obvious…

No, I just didn’t realize the reason the footprint is smaller than the floorspace, is because there’s multiple floors. I was picturing an inverted pyramid.

THERE’S SO MUCH NOTHING

The 1.9 million square feet is just the first 14 percent, with the final product supposed to have north of 10 million square feet of floorspace. Final footprint is supposed to be 5.8 million square feet. Apologies if that wasn’t clear.

Welcome out west, where San Francisco to Reno IS a short drive... Its only 1 state away, after all.

Because over 90% of businesses are on the ground.

This article was much less far out/drug induced than your normal articles about future technology. You feeling OK Torch?