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> I wonder what the right balance between the two would look like. Appropriate safety standards. ATVs with helmets and four wheels not three. Tall playgrounds
by colechristensen 4y ago
> I wonder what the right balance between the two would look like.
Appropriate safety standards. ATVs with helmets and four wheels not three. Tall playgrounds with appropriately soft ground materials for falling. Eliminating the stupid dangers without eliminating all of the danger. Having a decent sense of progression of risks. Having good responses when accidents do happen.
Basically design experiences expecting nonzero accident rates and design for those failures to go well.
- viraptor 4y agoYeah, that sounds reasonable. I feel like the article makes some good points with terrible illustrations. I mean, on the playgrounds I was around, the swings had metal frames, solid bars rather than chains and the fence was within jumping/falling distance. These are all things that are improved these days without changing anything about the size of the swing itself. We don't have to show the playground as a dangerous gauntlet that it was decades ago as an good alternative to the oversimplified things we see today.