Tesla Investment Day
Ian Page 2023.03.02 I flogged through the 4 hours and here are some comments. As usual, it's incredibly unusual for a company to put engineers on stage, and this time Elon was looking tired, and there were a lot of engineer types mumbling their way through their presentations. Despite the style, the actual significance came through brilliantly. The nice screen in the Tesla and the computer are installed very early in the production process. What I hadn't realized is that as each piece of the car is added, the central car computer checks that it was installed correctly and runs all sorts of tests reporting on the screen and production line to the control computer. The individual components are also tested extensively before installation. It's more like the way that proper software was built than a typical production line. NEW: the Tesla has a personal profile- things like seats, heating, radio channels, door opener code, etc...