Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Tesla's latest figures: Is the company overrated? | DW News" video.

I'm an Australian engineer who works in automation and control systems. There's a saying German engineers have: There's the right way, there's the wrong way and there's the German way. I must say that in general I will always put a German option on a project. If for no other reason than its incredibly rare for them to put a product on the market that does not do as specified. if there is one complaint I have about German engineering its that they are totally garbage at written documentation. Technical drawings and schematics are always near perfect but instruction manuals - Aaarrrrggghhhh.
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What's new about that with EVERYBODY else. No matter what warranty exists for almost anything these days its usually not worth the paper its written on (and never was).
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@nitinkumar29 I have worked with a number of German automation and engineering companies (Seimens, Kuka, Sick, Pilz,.........). I have had the discussion of manuals many, many times. Having also written many manuals and work site procedures I can tell you for a fact its a hard task. There are no classes or courses anywhere that teach that kind of technical writing. There are very few people who get it right and it took many, many years before I even started getting it right. Its also one of the least understood topics by management, but then most managers have little or no technical background.
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@nitinkumar29 Your absolutely right about one thing. In technical and scientific writing you MUST NOT leave things open to interpretation unless that is a specific aim of what you're writing and its clear you're doing that. Procedures in particular have to be almost task for task, step by step perfect. I've done some very serious quality assurance procedures for electrical installations. They seem incredibly benign until you understand that they MAKE SURE the install is safe. Sadly you are also very right that its not taken seriously by management and that won't change soon because all managers are fundamentally trained that way at university.
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I don't know why all these idiotic business analysts keep crapping on about stock prices when it should be obvious to the entire planet its all overblown. The stock market is only indicative of one thing and that is how the top 1% feel about it. The other 99% of us DON'T MATTER and NEVER DID.
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