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Originally Posted by Coldpants
This might be a bit of a jack but its related. Was anyone bothered by that guy who gets to override the computer that checks the frame to make sure its in tolerances? A properly programed computer is NOT inferior to a human, if you tell it to do something it will do it over and over and over in much smaller tolerance than any human can detect. By allowing that computer to be overridden simply lowers costs for GM at the expense of quality and I think some people are experiencing that trade off.
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Yeah, that comment was a little...wrong. If you can cover a car in paint evenly every time with robots, doing it by hand would likely cause body shop guys to overuse paint and materials (wasteful) to accomplish the same goal. He is right about losing jobs to machines though. That DOES suck.