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Alistair_Heaton

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Anyone got one?


How can kids and pets get injured with it?

Or is it just lacking safety screens from moving bits?
 
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39 accidents means shut them down, recall them all and take them off the market? Treadmills are dangerous. There are probably on average around 20,000+ treadmill accident cases ending up in the ER in the USA every year. Put a rubber belted treadmill too close to a wall and what do you think will happen when a kid falls between it and the wall? Broken bones and skin grafts. A different rubber tracked model would have kept running and peeled the skin off that kids arms and face.
 
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Yes. Looks like we need background checks. Far more efficient than a bumper mounted kill or tilt switch switch.
 
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It has probable contributed to the rise in accidents on this specific model that it's made for gyms as Littleinch points out, the price is not for the home market $4,300.
People buy/rent them to have them at home since they can not go the gym due to the pandemic.

In a gym environment the flaws and risk would not arise, since there are no kids, Pilates rubber balls, cats around.
And people who have used the model at the gym has already a minds set that it's not dangerous, because in the environment they have used it, not much happens, when they themselves have goten the hang of it.

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Like alligators in a Florida backyard swimming pool.
 
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As Brian sade about foreseeable misuse.
A risk assessment for foreseeable misuse would be quite different if you looked at it as product purely for a gym, then if you would look at it as a product for home use.

I still think it's a correct move to tell people to stop use it and demand that they do something about.

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No, it'd be the correct move to force changes on ALL manufacturers if treadmills have suddenly become unacceptable dangerous. Otherwise, it's a 1-witch hunt.
 
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I am not sure what authority CPSC has or how they work.

But in EU first the recommendations would be issued and then the standards would be changed for all similar products/machines.
In this case SS-EN 957-6:2010+A1:2014.

So what I meant was, that it should apply equally for everybody.

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What about a set of paired NFC chips as an easy way to activate/deactivate the control panel.
 
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What about a set of paired NFC chips as an easy way to activate/deactivate the control panel.
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There's already a safety key, so not sure how this would be better; a kid can just as easily find and use the safety key as they can an NFC chip. The clear issue is that either is inconvenient for the adult, and actual, user, so they just leave the interlock unlocked, because it's inconvenient to get the key, or NFC chip, from wherever they need to put it to prevent a child from getting access to it, since it would need to be comparable to a gun safe.

A more plausible answer might be biometrics, particularly for high-end systems like Peleton, that could include a cellphone camera and the algos for fingerprint or face recognition. Even $800 laptops have fingerprint scanners and webcams.

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Security key? NFC?

How about a rudimentary 4-digit PIN?
 
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According to Indiamart, their most expensive fingerprint scanner is only about $126 and that's with packaging, etc., so OEM should be even cheaper.

In any case, Peleton says their Tread includes an 8 Mpixel camera, so facial rec should be a no-brainer to add.

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IRstuff said:
Even $300 laptops have fingerprint scanners and webcams.
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Fixed that for ya, IR... finger scanners are dirt cheap devices (a few $s), even my cheapy Lenovo laptop has one.

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My experience with fingerprint recognition is dismal. After a few months both my laptop and cellphone refuse to recognize my fingerprints. Back to passwords.

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The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which depends on a feature that isn't included in this version of Windows.
 
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I had trouble with the fingerprint recognition on my iPhone 6, but when I replaced it with an iPhone 7, it's worked great ever since (I'm still using the 7, it's got everything that I need).

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None of the high tech solutions are as effective as a piece of sheet metal wrapping around the end(s) of the machine and close-fitting to the conveyor surface so that you can't get a finger trapped in the leading edge of it.

Yes, you could still get an abrasion where the moving conveyor passes underneath the leading edge of this guard, but that's not an injury that is likely to send someone to the hospital or, evidently, worse.
 
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Sure, but finger catching isn't the only possibility of injury, so some lockout mechanism is still required to prevent someone from programming an absurd speed, falling and then shooting across the floor into a wall or immovable or breakable object.

And note that the Peleton actually has a safety key, but few actually make use of it.

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I can picture that in a movie...

Rather than think climate change and the corona virus as science, think of it as the wrath of God. Feel any better?

-Dik
 
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