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原文内容：
The guy telling everyone to be afraid of robots uses too many robots
in his factory.
Elon Musk says Tesla relied on too many robots to build the Model 3,
which is partly to blame for the delays in manufacturing the crucial
mass-market electric car. In an interview with CBS Good Morning, Musk
agreed with Tesla's critics that there was over-reliance on automation
and too few human assembly line workers building the Model 3.
Elon Musk表示特斯拉过度依赖机器人于 Model 3的生产，部分导致了这台主流
市场产品生产的延宕，他也目前的生产线上自动化的部份过多而人力作业的确
太少了。
Earlier this month, Tesla announced that it had officially missed its
goal of making 2,500 Model 3 vehicles a week by the end of the first
financial quarter of this year. It will start the second quarter making
just 2,000 Model 3s per week, but the company says it still believes
it can get to a rate of 5,000 Model 3s per week at the midway point
of 2018.
本月稍早特斯拉正式宣布其没有完成2500(台/周)的季度目标，但他们仍然相信
于2018年中能达成5000 (台/周)的生产速率。
Previously, Tesla has blamed bottlenecks in the production of the
Model 3’s batteries at the company’s Gigafactory for the delays. But
in a wide-ranging (and largely positive) interview with CBS’s
Gayle King, Musk also admits it was Tesla’s over-reliance on
robots in the production.
先前特斯拉将瓶颈归罪于电池的生产，但Musk也承认是过度依赖自动化所导致。
Musk then said the company needs more people working in the factory
and that automation slowed the Model 3 production process. He alluded
to a “crazy, complex network of conveyor belts” the company had
previously used and said the company eliminated it after it became
clear it wasn’t working.
Musk接着表示生产需要更多的人力作业，也提到复杂的物料输送系统在被发现并不
管用之后只好被移除。
It’s a fairly stunning admission from the man who previously likened
his company’s massive factory to an “alien dreadnought” thanks to
the complex assemblage of advanced robotic arms building its line of
electric cars. In an earnings call with investors last year, Musk
spoke about the production speeds facilitated by Tesla’s robots.
“It’s remarkable how much can be done by just beating up robots ...
adding additional robots at choke points and just making lines go
really, really fast,” he said. “Speed is the ultimate weapon.”
对于曾经将其工厂比拟成外星无畏级战舰，且对投资人夸口机器人如何加快了
生产线速度的Elon Musk来说，现在的坦白其实令人有点震惊。
Last year, Tesla acquired Perbix, a private machining firm that makes
automated equipment for factories, allowing the carmaker to bring the
production of more parts in-house. Tesla described the deal as a
step further in its long-stated ambition to “build the machine
that makes the machine.”
去年特斯拉收购了Perbix，希望更进一步完成"用机器制造机器"的野心。
In fact, Musk was so confident that Tesla had gotten right the mix
of robots and humans that its giant Gigafactory would become the
company’s ultimate product. “The competitive strength of Tesla
long-term is not going to be the car, it’s going to be the factory,”
he said last February. “We’re going to productize the factory.”
事实上，Musk曾经表示他们的最终目标并不是汽车，而是制造出超级工厂。
Musk is also one of the foremost voices urging caution in the
development of robotics and artificial intelligence. He has called
for governments to regulate AI to prevent the technology from
threatening human existence, and has warned for a coming
“AI apocalypse.”
Musk其实是最先敦促政府必须管制AI以避免AI末日灾难的发生的人。
Also in the interview, Musk said the Model 3’s technical
complexities were additionally to blame for the company’s ongoing
“production hell.” “We got complacent about some of the things
we felt were our core technology, we put too much new technology
into the Model 3 all at once,” Musk said.
Musk在访谈中提到，在Model 3上放入了过多的科技也是造成生产地狱的原因。
(Scape大指出 根据CBS访谈 此处应指在Model 3 产线上放入过多新科技)
A spokesperson for Tesla declined to clarify Musk’s comments.
While aesthetically more minimal than the Model S or X, the Model 3
uses 2170 lithium-ion battery cells, which are more complex than the
industry-standard 18650 battery cells used in the Model S and X.
Musk previously confirmed that Tesla’s Gigafactory 1 in Nevada was
the source for the production bottlenecks slowing Model 3 deliveries.
Panasonic, Tesla’s battery cell manufacturing partner at the factory,
has also confirmed this.
Model 3的确使用了较目前18650更为复杂的2170锂电池。
To be sure, Musk has used the “too much technology” excuse before.
In 2016, he owned up to the problems with production of the Model X,
telling an audience of Tesla shareholders, “This [Model X] program
has been challenging. I particularly need to fault myself for a fair
bit of hubris for putting too much technology all at once into a
product.” The Model 3, he said, would not have as much technology
as the Model S and X.
使用"放入过多科技"这个招数，其实在Model X的时候就曾经用过了，现在
效果应该不怎么显著。
Now Musk said he has taken over production of the Model 3, sleeping
at Tesla’s Fremont factory in an effort to keep tabs on the vehicle’s
rollout. In the interview, he shows King the conference room where
he sleeps. A pillow and sleeping bag can be seen in the shot. King
calls the couch “not even [...] comfortable.”
Musk表示现在他已接管了Model 3的生产，睡在工厂内不怎么舒服的沙发上。
心得/说明：
首次翻译外电有误请指正。
其实真心希望电动车能在特斯拉的带领下发展起来，希望特斯拉不要自己毁了
电动车的美好未来啊!