From the article:
„For comparison: Converted to the number of employees, this is three times as many emergencies – in a similar period of time – as occurred, for example, at the Audi factory in Ingolstadt.“
„For comparison: Converted to the number of employees, this is three times as many emergencies – in a similar period of time – as occurred, for example, at the Audi factory in Ingolstadt.“
I wonder about this as well. It would make sense that a brand new factory that is rapidly growing would experience more safety issues. No idea if this is a reasonable increase though.
I wouldn't get too hung up on statistical significance here. Whenever someone brings up statistical significance, I always like to ask: "significant with respect to what? by what standard?"
However it might be interesting to consider whether 3x is normal for all new production facilities. But that's a separate question.
But importantly, did it? Did you look into and compare audi's first year safety record before making this suggestion?
Even the article is cashing in on Musk's controversial image. Instead of saying it's a Tesla factory they awkwardly write:
> Tesla boss Elon Musk’s factory
Elon only owns 13% of Tesla so that framing is quite wrong, it's not his factory, why do you think they write like that?
Tesla don't need to invent safety standards they only need to implement them.
BTW you can't compare the first year of the Audi factory with the first year of Tesla because the Audi factory is much older and back then totally different safety standards existed.
Safety standards aren't some black and white thing where you can meet them by exactly following some rules set down in a rulebook.
If you know something is dangerous (or a reasonable man would have known), you can't do it, even if there isn't a specific rule against it. And often you learn things are dangerous through experience.
Yes, this is exactly the point people are making. Tesla has had the opportunity to learn from the experiences of other manufacturers and should be applying those lessons as they begin operations.
This isn't Tesla's first try so the excuse isn't valid
For example, are more incidents reported by British Airlines or Aeroflot? Now, which would you rather fly on?
"documents from the rescue centers also documented that Tesla boss Elon Musk’s factory requested an ambulance or helicopter 247 times in the first year after opening alone."
So this is not simply about incidents in the sense of some hickup that is worthy of reporting, but incidents where probably people gut hurt.
Hence I'm not sure if the airline comparison really applies here.
(Tripped and fell onto the ashes of a fire aged 10, knocked unconscious by a trampoline aged 11, testicular torsion in 2005, hit by an inattentive driver at low speed in the late 00s, 20mm by 1mm by 1mm gouge along a finger from opening a tin of tomatoes during lockdown being the only one on this list where I went by tram instead of ambulance).
(Not that this means they're fine or there's no room for improvement; it's just that this feels like a rerun of the memes about Foxconn and suicide nets, as both completely lack a sense of scale for the workplace place and how much everywhere else also fails, and also as an attempt to demonise rather than to be the "rising tide" that is supposed to "lift all boats").