Krugerrand
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I feel like the engineer that recommended scrubbing the Challenger launch because he saw the risk of launching in sub-zero conditions as too high for safety reasons. The pointy-haired NASA managers ignored him, launched anyway and destroyed the shuttle and its 7 crew members. Hopefully, Tesla can recover if this turns out to be a mistake.
Money vs people's lives. Totally not understanding the analogy.
I'm doubtful that any email would change their minds at this point.
But posting it on a *fans of -* forum would? Again,
It seems like Elon is caught between a rock and a hard place and is being forced into this to avoid the loss of momentum when they can't produce any more cars because there just aren't any enough batteries to put into them.
You actually think he just pulled this Giga Factory idea out of his pocket last week? I imagine he knew he'd be doing this a long time ago, like when he first put together his Secret Master Plan, he knew that one of the likely outcomes (as he likes to say) would be that he needed to build his own battery factory to reduce battery costs enough to produce the affordable mass market car.
Please, the one doing the forcing here is Elon Musk; right down the car industry's throat.