It’s almost like Elon Musk is a complete fucking moron and not an Engineer. The wanker has never actually designed a thing in his life. He just tells other people to design something, or buys an existing company, then struts around like he thinks he’s the smartest thing around.
I’ve been doing PCB-board design recently. Here’s the manufactuering specs: www.digikey.com/en/resources/dkred
So that’s 0.13mm tolerances to my printed-circuit board. Or 130 microns.
Red_October@lemmy.world 11 months ago
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
He was fired for being incompetent. Only got rich because rich daddy and because he got lucky with stocks
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
If he said <10 mils, I’d might have bought the explanation that Elon actually meant millimetres. Micron is a very specific metric-based unit which to Elon might have been trying to use like a buzzword.
The moral of the story is don’t say stupid engineering stuff if you don’t want engineers to laugh at you.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
And 10 microns at what temperature? Because on something the size of a car, made of mixed materials, thermal expansion of less than a degree is going to blow that figure.
They couldn’t apply paint to a tolerance of 10microns.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Ten mils is .010" or .25mm if I’m not crazy.
It’s a very standard tolerance for aircraft parts.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yeah and that wouldn’t be too bad either… still expensive but not completely unrealistic for ALL parts of a car.
PsychedSy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Kinda unreasonable for the number of cast parts most cars use, but for machined surfaces it shouldn’t be too bad.