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by anonymfus 1893 days ago
The regulations should be based on how people actually use things, not on how they supposed to use them. If these treadmills cause more deadly incidents than other appliances then comparably more effort should be spent on making them safer.
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I agree that's fair (normalized for any past regulatory overreach). Products that are death traps compared with others in their category should definitely be called out. I did a google search and the first link [0] says about 3 treadmill deaths per year and 24k (!) injuries is typical in the US (well, those are the numbers the article quotes).

That's not enough information, but certainly not a smoking gun showing that peloton is dangerous vs others in its category.

[0] https://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/exercise-equipmen...