Think car factories are boring? They aren’t when Tesla is giving the tour, as this spectacular drone footage of the EV firm’s new Gigafactory in Germany proves.
We’ve seen drone films of car production before. Only last month we wrote about a cool video Morgan posted where a drone took you through the different crusty brick buildings that have been the company’s home for the past century. But as you’d expect from anything with Tesla’s involvement, this film is next level incredible.
The footage on drone-maker DJI’s Instagram account is of Telsa’s newly-opened plant in Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany, and when we say it takes you through the production process we mean it literally takes you through it. As in the drone flies through the actual machinery, narrowly avoiding getting crushed like a bug in the presses that stamp out Model 3 and Model Y body panels.
You fly through cars themselves, dodging the sparks of machines welding on the panels, and through cars again later in the build process, this time all beautifully painted, and you try not to wince at the thought of the drone’s propellors whirring so close to the pristine bodywork.
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Obviously there’s some clever editing going on to join clips together in a way that makes it look as is the drone never stops moving. But full marks to whoever was flying the drone, which from the credits on Chinese drone master DJI’s Instagram post, appears to be a FPV device.
And we should also give some props to Tesla for letting the DJI guys go places that would give normal car factory chiefs a heart attack. I’ve been to plenty of car factories and they’re so safety conscious you get yelled at if you veer out of your little pathway. And I can’t imagine any conventional automaker letting anyone fly a drone so close to machinery that, if damaged, could cause embarrassing and expensive production holdups.
Which other car factory would you like to see get this DJI drone treatment? Leave a comment and let us know.
