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One of the lessons you're eventually supposed to learn when designing consumer products is that you don't get to decide what "used correctly" means. If, in act
by ohazi 6y ago
One of the lessons you're eventually supposed to learn when designing consumer products is that you don't get to decide what "used correctly" means.
If, in actual use, some people are leaving the key in the treadmill, then just having the key and two sentences in the manual isn't going to be considered an adequate substitute for having a tread guard.
"But they didn't read the manual!" isn't going to absolve them of liability either.
- PurpleFoxy 6y agoI think the question of “should the design have prevented this?” Would factor in. If someone doesn’t clip the safety cord to themselves and then trips and the machine keeps running and injures them, the only possible way to stop this kind of event is with a safety clip which was already provided and the user chose to not use.
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- omnicognate 6y agoIf you do a google images search for "running treadmill" you'll see most of them have some design aspect that would prevent the accident shown in the video, most commonly a bar or guard of some sort that would stop a child or large object being dragged under. Edit: in case you haven't seen the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onXNnlCYJ4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onXNnlCYJ4Y