"In retrospect, Musk says, trying to automate so much of Tesla’s factory at once was overly ambitious. “We thought it would be good, but it was not good,” he says. “We were huge idiots and didn’t know what we were doing.”

This tool is called the golden wheel, an apparatus that automatically breaks in suspensions and aligns cars in one step without humans.

Seat assembly is labor-intensive and is outsourced by every major car company to the lowest-paid workers they can find. On the Model 3 seat line more than a dozen robots rapidly piece together the front seats, including tiny motors, hinges, heaters, and frames. Tesla claims this is the world’s first front seat assembly line in which no humans are involved at all.

The employees here seem to be volunteers, or

Tesla wins dismissal of shareholder lawsuit over Model 3 production

(Reuters) - A federal judge in San Francisco