Elon does have control over what the engineers do, though.
He says he wants the Tesla software devs to spend time putting a farting unicorn Easter egg into the software, they do.
He says he doesn't like safety yellow, and wants the gigafactory to be as close to the red gray color scheme as possible, then the walking and forklift paths at the factories get distinguished by two different shades of gray.
I don't know the actual thinking behind it, but I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if he told them that he wanted it to be all shiny metal to resemble the rocketships in mid century sci-fi movies and they rolled their eyes and acquiesced, so as to keep their job.
Elon does have control over what the engineers do, though.
He says he wants the Tesla software devs to spend time putting a farting unicorn Easter egg into the software, they do.
He says he doesn't like safety yellow, and wants the gigafactory to be as close to the red gray color scheme as possible, then the walking and forklift paths at the factories get distinguished by two different shades of gray.
I don't know the actual thinking behind it, but I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest if he told them that he wanted it to be all shiny metal to resemble the rocketships in mid century sci-fi movies and they rolled their eyes and acquiesced, so as to keep their job.