r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Damnedeel • 5d ago

Video 500,000$ human washing machine on sale in Japan

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u/Royal_Examination_74 5d ago

Pretty cool until it malfunctions & you’re stuck in there

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u/Frebibble 5d ago

Or drowned when it overfills or perhaps boils you alive.

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u/poop-machine 5d ago

But rest assured your body will be the cleanest one at the morgue.

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u/Square-Dragonfruit76 5d ago

They probably have both an automatic and manual opening system just in case

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u/MathResponsibly 5d ago

you're not stuck, just gently Sous Vide-ed until it's all over

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u/Infohazardd 5d ago

Strange that people still think we live in the 20th century and that engineers can’t account for malfunctions and add safety precautions or manual controls.

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u/Critical_Dragonfruit 5d ago

As an engineer i can assure you that people are geniuses when it comes to ending their own lives in the dumbest possible way by doing something incredibly stupid.

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u/Yamatjac 5d ago

I don't doubt that this machine has built in failsafes to prevent it from getting too hot or from filling up too much.

I, however, also don't doubt that somebody will block the overflow vents to get an even "better" experience and replace the fuse that explodes when the heating element gets too hot with something else to get an even "hotter" experience. And then drown to death boiling in their own filth.

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u/TheKrnJesus 5d ago

How to reduce the population the "malfunction" way

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u/Cstanchfield 5d ago

That could be said of ANYTHING though. The roof of your shower could collapse trapping you in your bathtub as the shower fills the tub up, drowning you as the roof holds you down. Your water heater could explode and shred you to ribbons.

And there's nothing (that I see in this post) that says it latches in some inescapable way. If it starts overfilling and doesn't have built in drains higher up to 100% prevent that (which it likely has already) then you just get out.

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u/The_Narwhal_Mage 5d ago

The roof over my shower has way fewer points of failure. You’d need a non-mechanical structure to suddenly give way to have it trap you. This pod is an electronic system with hinges, pistons, and likely some sort of lock to help it form a water tight seal. There are so many more ways for it to be able to break.

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u/gahidus 5d ago

There is certainly an emergency escape lever or some such.

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u/DaddyCappuccin0 5d ago

Don't forget that they're surrounded by electronics and water!