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Tesla father and CEOElon Muskjust paid a rarified compliment to his own coinage , calling humans " underrated " on Twitter last workweek .
What get about this somewhat underwhelming laurels ? Musk had directed Tesla to acquire innovative automation as the assemblage contrast for Tesla ’s new sedan , the Model 3 galvanising car . But now that Tesla is behind in making the cars , its customers on the wait list are croak .
Tesla founder Elon Musk stands in front of a Roadster electric sports vehicle in November 2017.
" Yes , excessive mechanization at Tesla was a mistake , " Muskwrote in the April 13 tweet . " To be accurate , my error . Humans are underrated . " [ Super - Intelligent Machines : 7 Robotic Futures ]
The Model 3 is Tesla ’s first midpriced , mass - bring on electric car , accord to CBS News . Its more affordable price tag , starting at $ 35,000 , actuate many hoi polloi to preorder it , and the company responded by say it would bring out 5,000 unexampled cars each week .
However , the actual outturn has been much lower . At the end of March , Tesla strike a yield pace of 2,000 cars per week , according to USA Today . Part of the reason for the production delay is the applied science at the plant , in Fremont , California , Musk said . In fact , the Model 3 assembly line is seen as one of the most automaton - heavy elevator car plant life on the planet , CBS News report .
" We put too much new engineering science into the Model 3 all at once , " Musk told Gayle King , a co - host at " CBS This Morning . "
Musk tot up that rather of speeding up Model 3 production , the robots in reality slowed it down . " We had this crazy , complex meshwork of conveyer belts … and it was not working , so we got rid of that whole thing , " he say .
Now , Musk has directed the company to debar Model 3 output for the 2nd time in late weeks . The temporary halt will help oneself Tesla " to improve automation and systematically reference bottlenecks in orderliness to increase output rates , " the company told USA Today .
Musk said he was sleep at the Model 3 factory so he could get more body of work done . The couch there is so narrow , he ended up catch some Z’s on the level one night , he told CBS .
We have to agree with Musk here : Humans may beunderrated , but slumber on the trading floor certainly is n’t .
Original clause onLive Science .
