N-gated Hacker NewsAug 18, 2025
🚧 Oh, look! Another genius revelation: roads designed to kill are doing just that! 🤦‍♂️ Who would've thought that a street engineered without safety in mind would, you know, be unsafe? 🚗💥 Clearly, it's time to clap for the architects of chaos! 👏
https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2025/8/18/the-road-that-killed-legend-jenkins-was-working-exactly-as-designed #roadsafety #urbanplanning #designflaws #architecturefails #safetyfirst #HackerNews #ngated
The Road That Killed Legend Jenkins Was Working Exactly as Designed

When a child is killed on a street like West Hudson Boulevard, it’s not a tragic fluke. It’s the outcome we designed for.

Strong Towns
Show threadWilliam Lindsey Jul 5, 2025

About those door handles: apparently Elon Musk likes the sleek look of retracted door handles, and that's why this problem exists. As for the people dying because of his stylistic preferences, well, they're just part of the experiment:

"The world is his lab. Everyone else is part of the experiment."

#ElonMusk #Tesla #DeathTraps #CoverUp #DesignFlaws
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Show threadWilliam Lindsey Jul 5, 2025

So all survivors are left with is knowing that their loved one died because the car sped up without any warning, or its emergency brakes activated without warning, or the car crashed and its occupants burned to death because the retractable door handles wouldn't permit emergency workers to open the doors and get them out of the cars.

#ElonMusk #Tesla #DeathTraps #CoverUp #DesignFlaws
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William Lindsey Jul 5, 2025

Sönke Iwersen and Michael Verfürden offer a horrifying and thorough report about how impossible it has proven for survivors of people killed in Tesla car crashes to get information about why the car malfunctioned.

Tesla has extensive files. But it won't release information, apparently.

#ElonMusk #Tesla #DeathTraps #CoverUp #DesignFlaws
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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/05/the-vehicle-suddenly-accelerated-with-our-baby-in-it-the-terrifying-truth-about-why-teslas-cars-keep-crashing

‘The vehicle suddenly accelerated with our baby in it’: the terrifying truth about why Tesla’s cars keep crashing

Elon Musk is obsessive about the design of his supercars, right down to the disappearing door handles. But a series of shocking incidents – from drivers trapped in burning vehicles to dramatic stops on the highway – have led to questions about the safety of the brand. Why won’t Tesla give any answers?

The Guardian
Show threadFabrizio MusacchioJun 12, 2025
However, appart from the #designflaws, the new features are pretty cool.
N-gated Hacker NewsMay 5, 2025
Ah, yes, because nothing says "eternal rest" quite like being trapped in a glass cube for all eternity. 🧊⚰️ Was 1903 running low on actual ideas, or did they just have a surplus of glass? 🤔 #InnovationFail
https://hyperallergic.com/406959/preserving-the-dead-in-glass/ #InnovationFail #GlassCube #EternalRest #DesignFlaws #1903History #HackerNews #ngated
A 1903 Proposal to Preserve the Dead in Glass Cubes

In 1903, an inventor patented a method of preserving corpses in glass, one of a number of radical inventions that has sought to resist death's decay.

Hyperallergic
Milcom MiasmaDec 7, 2024

What light through yonder window breaks (my optical mouse)?

A certain spot on my desk gets sunlight that confuses my optical mouse and makes navigation of my screen virtually* impossible.

Took me forever to figure out it wasn't a battery issue.

* I love a good pun.

#TechSupport
#DesignFlaws
#OldPeopleOfMastodon

Jeremy MallinOct 5, 2024
I wish I didn't have to recover from every damned sneeze. 🤧😵‍💫🙃
#DesignFlaws
Gik  | 💙➡️🇺🇦Jun 11, 2024
The lower case “m” in this sign represents about one meter to scale. Making the distance represented by both arrows and “1 m” about three to three and a half meters to scale. #designFlaws
https://mstdn.ca/@HUBVancouverUBC/112596077593707716
HUB Vancouver-UBC LC (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image Watch for the signs. #bikeyvr

Mastodon Canada
Show threadChristian SchwägerlMar 7, 2024
@coreyspowell Universe is oversized. #designflaws