Autopilot to improve factory efficiency?

[baillies]

i read this article and thought that Tesla must have a major efficiency game for model 3 with less drivers needed to test and move cars around Tesla facilities given AP2 can automate much of this. Would still need someone for part of the QA testing (human ears for checking for noises) but almost everything else could be autonomous. This would slightly reduce the apparent cost of the hardware given that they can save on labour production costs.

Nissan Launches Intelligent Vehicle Towing at Oppama Factory — Based On Autonomous Nissan LEAF
Nissan Launches Intelligent Vehicle Towing at Oppama Factory -- Based On Autonomous Nissan LEAF

Not much need for automated towing if all of the vehicles produced are autonomous!!! Also the parking location could be moved further away or even just have the cars drive themselves to the port for OS delivery.

 

[Saghost]

Interesting thought. It won't matter until the car is almost complete, with wheels on and the whole powertrain and computers together, but it should streamline the late production and testing phases.