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Musk Says Excessive Automation Was ‘My Mistake’
- CEO owns up to ‘excessive automation’ at Model 3 plant
- Bernstein had predicted robot reliance would end in failure
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Tesla Inc.’s Elon Musk, who’s built up an aura around how automated his car assembly plant will be, has good news for humans: We still need your help.
“Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake,” the CEO wrote in a tweet Friday, hours after CBS aired an interview in which he acknowledged putting too many robots in Tesla’s lone auto factory. “Humans are underrated.”