[nohuck13]

"ALSO EVERY AIRPORT SHOULD HAVE MOCK EMERGENCY AIRPLANE DOORS FOR PEOPLE TO TRY OUT."

I would pay money for this in the safety amusement park, but in real life way more people would get hurt operating the fake one at the airport than we'd help in real emergencies. Plane crashes where the emergency exit gets operated are so rare they effectively don't happen.

[walletdrainer]

I had the opportunity to deploy (and use!) a slide at a Lufthansa event, super cool experience but given that just the slide deployment probably cost them over $30k I can’t really see it being a common thing.

Of course just opening an exit door replica you could do for ~free

[reisse]

I think mock slide deployment could be made much cheaper than 30k - e. g. high-volume compressors can be used instead of gas canisters, the materials can be cheaper because there is no weight or temperature requirements, etc.

[walletdrainer]

Fair, since it doesn’t actually need to work well enough for emergencies you’re presumably looking at bouncy castle levels of spending.

[butvacuum]

And no bills from the coast guard. (All these devices have distress beacons that activate automatically)

[fhdkweig]

Paying to break things is a valid business plan. In Tokyo, stressed business men can pay to break dishes by throwing them against a wall.

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/dishing-out-anti-s...