[pm90]

Please no more of the personal responsibility bullcrap. “Don’t make a mistake and you won’t make a mistake” is a pretty useless statement.

When designing mass manufactured items, it is a responsibility of manufacturers to ensure that their products are as safe as they can be.

[aeharding]

Indeed.

Even HN cannot see past the perverse dangers and flaws of modern auto design responsible for the current vulnerable road user epidemic in America. [1] When it comes to cars - it's "personal responsibility". When it comes to treadmills - it's a "manufacturing flaw" [2]

[1] https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/2018/06/28/suvs-killi... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26846641

[nradov]

Should manufacturers also install governors that limit maximum speed to 55 mph? That would make them as safe as they can be, right?

[DHPersonal]

You're actually really on to something there.

[Tiktaalik]

yes