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[-] baggachipz 96 points 1 month ago

I fucking hate motion-sensing faucets so much. We can edit the human genome, but are unable to make a motion sensor that actually fucking works?! Fuck outta here.

I actually prefer the old-school “push-down and have limited time” type at this point.

[-] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago

I just want a foot pedal to press. Public toilets should also have those just for hygienic reasons.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I really miss these hand washing stations we had in elementary school.

[-] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago

Wait that's a pee station at the concert venue

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Let's just hope it's not both.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Why not? Sound much more effective if it was both.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You can wash your hands in someone’s pee and save water

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

You guessed it

Here is a metal

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Bonus points for eye contact

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Holy shit that memory just hit me like a sack of bricks

[-] Grass 3 points 1 month ago

These were in several of the trades buildings in my post secondary. often stocked with fast orange and sunlight industrial.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

I'm not sure if this is ADA compliant. It might be the reason why we don't see these very often. I had one of these at work though.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I can only see wheelchairs being an issue, but you need special toilets and sinks for that anyway. Any foot pedal should be able to be activated with a crutch or prosthetic.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

ADA compliancy is such a BS hurdle sometimes.

"Hey we made this improvement that will help 99.99% of all people!"

"What about the remaining 0.01%?"

"Well, no, unfortunately it won't work for those edge cases"

"Ewww.... Well it's not allowed then. If a blind man in a wheelchair with a service dog can't use it, then no one can!"

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago

I'm on team Foot pedals.

[-] Deceptichum 10 points 1 month ago

Why not both? Automatically sense when to start your limited time.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago

Isn't that how every automatically sensing faucet works?

[-] darkdemize 6 points 1 month ago

I think typically they only turn on when they actively detect something near the sensor. Once they no longer detect the object, they shut off.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I don't think so.

If they only relied on the sensor it would constantly turn on and off which is something I have never seen on that kind of faucets. I think there is always a delay before shutting down but sometimes that delay is set so low that it feels like you need to constantly activate the sensor.

Edit: clarification: What I meant is that if you just move once your hand in front of the sensor it should remain ON longer than just the time your hand was detected. I have never seen a sensor that literally activates only to the millisecond when something is moving. Even just to prevent false activation for half a second you kind of need a delay in there. If not you could have a 100ms activation that doesn't even have the time to let the water out by opening the faucet and you create unnecessary wear on the valve system. My point being it never really makes sense in engineering to have a button or sensor direct output used. Usually you have mechanisms to prevent "bouncing" and so on. But I'm no plumber so it is just assumptions.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

This one does that, it stays on only when I move my hands.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

The sensors can be calibrated so only objects within a certain range set it off.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Which is exactly what I see all the time.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That’s how this one works. If I stop rubbing my hands the water stops. It detects motion, not proximity.

[-] where_am_i 3 points 1 month ago

You have correctly identified that it's not a lack of technological advancement that is holding our society back.

Now go solve social sciences, economics, psychology, and neuroscience. Come back and we'll talk about how to design a world where nobody happens to install a motion sensor with a wrong range.

[-] baggachipz 2 points 1 month ago
[-] mindbleach 2 points 1 month ago

I am so goddamn tired of waving at the robot.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I've actually encountered a properly designed one once in my life. The sensor was in the faucet spout instead of in the base.

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