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Elon Musk Slows Tesla Deliveries On 'Dangerous' Trucks (electrek.co)
An anonymous reader quotes Electrek:
Tesla is always very busy in Norway, its biggest market per capita, but it has recently been difficult for the automaker to deliver its vehicles as its shipments keep being taken off the road for using transporters with "dangerous" trucks that do not conform to the rules. The California-based automaker generally ships its vehicles to Norway through the port of Drammen, but it is experiencing capacity issues so they are instead going through Gothenburg port and having to use more trucks to move the cars to its stores and service centers.
According to several media reports in Norway, over half a dozen of those trucks have been stopped by the authorities for a variety of safety reasons during inspections and one of the trucks that wasn't stopped ended up in an accident. Two Model S vehicles were crushed on the trailer involved in the accident. Tesla says that it is having difficulties finding competent transporters that comply to Norway's road requirements. On top of the safety issues, Tesla is also using transporters operating Euro 3 class trucks, which are more polluting.
Elon Musk tweeted in response to the article that "I have just asked our team to slow down deliveries.
"It is clear that we are exceeding the local logistics capacity due to batch build and delivery. Customer happiness & safety matter more than a few extra cars this quarter."
According to several media reports in Norway, over half a dozen of those trucks have been stopped by the authorities for a variety of safety reasons during inspections and one of the trucks that wasn't stopped ended up in an accident. Two Model S vehicles were crushed on the trailer involved in the accident. Tesla says that it is having difficulties finding competent transporters that comply to Norway's road requirements. On top of the safety issues, Tesla is also using transporters operating Euro 3 class trucks, which are more polluting.
Elon Musk tweeted in response to the article that "I have just asked our team to slow down deliveries.
"It is clear that we are exceeding the local logistics capacity due to batch build and delivery. Customer happiness & safety matter more than a few extra cars this quarter."
Musk acts more like these are hobbies for him. He starts making a model car, then he sees a model rocket in the store that he likes and takes it home and starts that despite not finishing the car. See what I did there?
Laws are rules for the court, but merely a bottom bar to hit for life. Think beyond laws in your actions always.
And every single launch ONE of his rockets has failed to land on its ass-end too, or taken out the landing platform on the way down.
Because it's a stupid idea. I'm sure your comic-book-reading 7-year-old internal mind is thinking "Wow, cool, just like in my picture books", but in reality NASA used to ditch because ditching is cheaper, safer, easier and you could re-use them from the ocean if you could be bothered to do so (hint: most of the cost is in the fuel they carry, and being as lightweight as possible - i.e. not having much left to worry about ditching once it's empty).
If you really read Musk's stuff, it basically goes along the lines of "We're going to do something spectacular!" and then ends up with something that's not actually that spectacular at all, is often ridiculously wasteful (if you can afford to throw everything away and not make a profit, of course you can do stupid things), and is usually not at all practical or profitable.
There's a reason his sales figures for the car are 0.1% of cars sold every year. It's got little to do with simple truck logistics in Norway. There's a reason his vacuum-train idea is going nowhere. There's a reason his batteries are industry-standard lithium cells in a box.
It's all hype. Honestly, just go look. The whole "rockets landing on their ass" thing is really the epitome of his whole persona. Might look cool. But doesn't work anywhere near reliably enough to be worth the effort. I imagine there's a crowd of ageing NASA guys all laughing into their hands or facepalming every time they're mentioned.
Honestly, he's a billionaire salesman. He can throw his money away on anything you like. He might even succeed at a couple. But in terms of actually advancing us, or forming a coherent business plan around it, the businesses are useless. By his own admission, SpaceX and Tesla nearly went bankrupt at least once each. They are only propped up by his throwing a personal fortune (earned for selling off a company predicated on holding a credit card number in proxy) at it. Once that stops being the only real source of income, they will all collapse.
Shut your stupid ignorant mouth; Eastern Europeans are some of the hardest-working craftsmen on the planet. Should they be running dilapidated trucks? Obviously not. Should you kill yourself? The answer's really quite obvious.