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No, none of the model 3's use drive by wire, it's a classic steering column like other cars.
however there is a case running between Tesla and the FDM because the bushings that the steering wheel adjustment mechanism is mounted with has some play in it, which is supposedly what the inspections are rejecting them with as play in the steeringg column, even though there is not any play in the actual steering column itself. Shitty quality, absolutely, but not an inherent safety risk like play in the steering column.
So Tesla just can't make it properly like every other manufacturer can, and have done for 50 years!
Wow, that's kind of a worse look for Tesla.
That's probably because AFAIK there is zero play allowed in the steering wheel. It's not enough that the column is OK if the rest isn't.
This goes back to pre-Musk Tesla. Their original idea was to treat car manufacture as a greenfield problem, and they deliberately didn't hire anyone from the "legacy" industry. They assumed that their knowledge of high-tech manufacturing and supply-chain optimization would be much better than anything existing carmakers were doing. But they soon discovered that Teslas are, in most ways, just like other cars, and the brilliant manufacturing processes they came up with weren't really any different than those of any other carmaker, except the quality was worse. So at some point, a while before Musk stuck his nose in, they started quietly recruiting industry veterans to sort out the quality issues, which kept getting worse as production scaled up.
Since Musk has been in, the progress that Tesla had made in addressing quality has again gone down the shitter, due to his arrogance and inability to grasp engineering detail.
Tesla started in July of 2003 and Musk showed up in February of 2004 with VC money, becoming employee number 4 IIRC. How many vehicles do you figure that Martin Eberhard, Marc Tarpenning, and Ian Write built in their garage before Elon showed up? Couple hundred maybe?
Musk has been involved since 9 months after Eberhard and Tarpenning started the company. He was involved with the design of the Roadster, which he and others won an award for in 2006. That was two years before he became the CEO.
Elon is a disappointment and has truly become another billionaire douchebag jackass but that's no reason to rewrite history. Practically speaking Elon has been involved with Tesla since the beginning.