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If you're interested in how to engineer a state of the art, self-cleaning toilet, San Francisco famously spent $1,700,000 on a single public toilet installation
by simple10 4y ago
If you're interested in how to engineer a state of the art, self-cleaning toilet, San Francisco famously spent $1,700,000 on a single public toilet installation.
Here's a video on one of SF's new self-cleaning toilet pods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmFve_DI5mI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmFve_DI5mI
[Edit] The toilet in the video is not the $1.7M one, but it's a similar design AFAIK. The video is interesting for the engineering of the toilet pod. The $1.7M comment references a larger story about the politics involved in engineering and installing public toilets in the US.
- valleyer 4y agoYour comment might be interpreted incorrectly. According to the video, the silver toilet in the video is not the one that cost $1.7m; the video says it was provided by JCDecaux in exchange for some advertising rights.
- simple10 4y agoThanks valleyer. I edited the comment for clarity. The engineering involved is interesting. The politics and cost are just noise, but worth referencing because it became a clickbait story at the national level. It illustrates the complications for balancing good engineering with public perception and competing interests in the US.