SciFrog:

Tesla is revolutionizing the industry in other ways. They are the first ones to bypass soft retooling for factories, they are trying to improve manufacturing, they are building the gigafactory, they have no dealers, there is no haggling price negotiation and they come pick up the car at your house, plus they have the supercharger network today, not just some vague project like others do.

Not sure where you have received your information about bypassing soft tooling as this is standard procedures with all the major automakers for the past twenty years.  Tesla is the one doing the catchup, not the other way around, when it comes to manufacturing technologies and efficiencies.  The majors bend more metal in a couple of days than what Tesla does in an entire year.  What's different is the hype associated with Tesla, compared with the other makers.