Also I don't understand what your point was. I don't disagree with anything you wrote in that post, nor does anything I wrote previously imply disagreement with any of that—which I suppose is unsurprising given that it was a non sequitur. For the sake of completeness, let me enumerate all our agreements:
1. Touch screens are bad interfaces for a car in motion.
2. Removing physical buttons saves money and is great marketing.
3. There was an aesthetic aspect to the choice of factory floor colours.
4. Tesla factories have a poor historical safety record.
Anything else?
None of that detracts from the fact your original post was monumentally stupid and (despite your pre-emptive assertion) an entirely ad homenim making conclusions about Elon's motivations and Tesla's decision-making processes based on nothing more than one link to a tabloid-quality sensationalist report.
We don't even know who actually designed the factory floor colour schemes—and I doubt some rando fired line worker knows either. I suppose we just have to assume that Elon is soly responsible for bike-shedding every single nuance at a 40,000+ employee company.
I'm not a psychic, but reasoning came from a direct quote from one of his underlings. And yes, I linked a tabloid because tabloids are more fun, and that's about the level of seriousness we should cover him with. If you want something more reputable, here's Reveal's investigation:
https://www.revealnews.org/article/tesla-says-its-factory-is...
It's based on current and previous employees (at least at the time of writing), so you can put your concern that the source was a "rando fired line worker" to bed. :)
The quip about N95's having yellow bands was silly, but the problem is deep. N95 respirators are uncomfortable, hard to wear, and easy to mess up, and Tesla's well-documented (see, above) history of worker safety suggests they don't have the kind of safety culture required to actually keep their workers safe.
The tragic thing is it isn't actually hard, in the quantum physics/rocket science sense of the word. It's just a bunch of small steps that you can't mess up!
Also I don't understand what your point was. I don't disagree with anything you wrote in that post, nor does anything I wrote previously imply disagreement with any of that—which I suppose is unsurprising given that it was a non sequitur. For the sake of completeness, let me enumerate all our agreements:
1. Touch screens are bad interfaces for a car in motion.
2. Removing physical buttons saves money and is great marketing.
3. There was an aesthetic aspect to the choice of factory floor colours.
4. Tesla factories have a poor historical safety record.
Anything else?
None of that detracts from the fact your original post was monumentally stupid and (despite your pre-emptive assertion) an entirely ad homenim making conclusions about Elon's motivations and Tesla's decision-making processes based on nothing more than one link to a tabloid-quality sensationalist report.
We don't even know who actually designed the factory floor colour schemes—and I doubt some rando fired line worker knows either. I suppose we just have to assume that Elon is soly responsible for bike-shedding every single nuance at a 40,000+ employee company.