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They have to pay an attendant hourly just to be sure no one is in there while the self clean runs? Why can't it operate based on a weight sensor?
by lr4444lr 4y ago
They have to pay an attendant hourly just to be sure no one is in there while the self clean runs? Why can't it operate based on a weight sensor?
- gregoriol 4y agoBecause no startup has made an AI for that purpose yet?
- uoaei 4y agoAll you need is a PIR sensor
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 4y agoEasily defeated with a masking tape.
- yupper32 4y agoIt's cheaper to pay someone $20 an hour 24 hours a day for 20 years than it is to pay out the $4mil lawsuit for when that sensor fails.
- mousetree 4y agoI'm not an American, but can/would people sue for getting washed in a self-cleaning toilet? Surely some signs and disclosures would be sufficient?
- dahdum 4y agoThey’d be injecting hard drugs, especially fentanyl, constantly in this toilet, so signs and disclosures won’t mean much. SF is a rather “special” place, you can’t easily compare to other international cities.
- pyuser583 4y agoAre people really shooting up on the streets in Noe Valley? I kept hearing it’s the one nice part of the city.
- uoaei 4y agoSpoken like someone who has not spent more than a week in SF, probably entirely in hotels or restaurants.
- staticautomatic 4y agoI’ve lived in SF for more than a decade and if I opened the door to a public toilet I’d be surprised if someone wasn’t shooting up inside.
- uoaei 4y agoYou don't spend much time outside of your house, then.
- Turing_Machine 4y agoPeople in America will sue because the "crunchberries" in breakfast cereals aren't real berries. That doesn't mean they'll win, but even a bogus lawsuit is expensive and time-consuming. https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/judge_tosses_suit_claiming_crunchberry_deception_by_capn_crunch/ https://www.abajournal.com/news/article/judge_tosses_suit_cl...
- OJFord 4y agoThey'd sue for you suggesting they shouldn't!
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- hot_gril 4y ago
- borissk 4y agoBecause somebody will step on the sink or somehow else avoid the sensor and then sue for a round sum.
- mrits 4y agoI think I'd take my chances with the sidewalk than risk a startups new self cleaning censor. Literally a shit storm
- mattnewton 4y agoIt's not some startups self cleaning sensor, this is old technology that is in several other cities without attendants, and is basically idiot proof. The attendant hopefully makes it american-idiot proof too.
- thatguy0900 4y agoI think the problem isn't making it idiot proof, but making it malicious user who really wants to do heroin in there proof
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- Phlogistique 4y agoAll the toilets in Paris self-clean between users. You don't need the sensor to work not to get sprayed, just to exit the toilet when a voice says "EXIT THE TOILET NOW, THE SELF CLEANING PROCESS IS ABOUT TO BEGIN.
- sixstringtheory 4y agoI used one of these and the self clean cycle started without warning while I was washing my hands. I couldn’t have been in there more than 4-5 minutes. Luckily the door didn’t lock so I was able to escape before getting “cleaned”.
- hot_gril 4y agoHeck, I cover up the self-flushing mechanism on toilets every time then remove it after. Not a pleasant surprise when it miscalculates.
- mikeryan 4y agoWhen unmonitored public toilets have had issues with people camping out while partaking illicit substances and other X-rated activities.
- whimsicalism 4y ago
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- iancmceachern 4y agoValid point, public bathrooms in France do this without an attendant