WaPo article on how the BOB stroller should be recalled but isn’t

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Anonymous wrote:These are $400-$500 strollers. People buying them expect quality and safety. Don't charge me $500 and then say "well you should have checked some lever."

Do better Britax.

Doesn't Consumer Reports actually test and review strollers?

I'm pretty sure they do, and if so I wonder what happened here.

You are aware that Consumer Reports is not the same as the Consumer Product Safety Commission - Consumer Reports is a non-profit that is not run by the government - at all?

Of course I am aware. I am also aware that CR has 100 times more impact that the CPSS, which is why I was wondering about their take on this.

NP - google is your friend.
https://www.consumerreports.org/jogging-strollers/what-you-need-to-know-if-you-have-a-bob-jogging-stroller/

Also this https://www.consumerreports.org/jogging-strollers/britax-jogging-stroller-settlement/

+1.

Market problem.

Market solution.

Um, no. Market imperfection => government regulation.

That's the Stalin model.

We don't live in the USSR.

Guess which model leads to better safety.

Regulated capitalism is not communism.

...said Lenin.

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Anonymous wrote:These are $400-$500 strollers. People buying them expect quality and safety. Don't charge me $500 and then say "well you should have checked some lever."

Do better Britax.

Doesn't Consumer Reports actually test and review strollers?

I'm pretty sure they do, and if so I wonder what happened here.

You are aware that Consumer Reports is not the same as the Consumer Product Safety Commission - Consumer Reports is a non-profit that is not run by the government - at all?

Of course I am aware. I am also aware that CR has 100 times more impact that the CPSS, which is why I was wondering about their take on this.

NP - google is your friend.
https://www.consumerreports.org/jogging-strollers/what-you-need-to-know-if-you-have-a-bob-jogging-stroller/

Also this https://www.consumerreports.org/jogging-strollers/britax-jogging-stroller-settlement/

+1.

Market problem.

Market solution.

Um, no. Market imperfection => government regulation.

That's the Stalin model.

We don't live in the USSR.

Guess which model leads to better safety.

Lol. Safe strollers --> tyranny. Got it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:These are $400-$500 strollers. People buying them expect quality and safety. Don't charge me $500 and then say "well you should have checked some lever."

Do better Britax.

Doesn't Consumer Reports actually test and review strollers?

I'm pretty sure they do, and if so I wonder what happened here.

You are aware that Consumer Reports is not the same as the Consumer Product Safety Commission - Consumer Reports is a non-profit that is not run by the government - at all?

Of course I am aware. I am also aware that CR has 100 times more impact that the CPSS, which is why I was wondering about their take on this.

NP - google is your friend.
https://www.consumerreports.org/jogging-strollers/what-you-need-to-know-if-you-have-a-bob-jogging-stroller/

Also this https://www.consumerreports.org/jogging-strollers/britax-jogging-stroller-settlement/

+1.

Market problem.

Market solution.

Uh no. That "market solution" only occurred due to government oversight, such that it is. The settlement was with the CPSC because the CPSC forced them to offer this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:These are $400-$500 strollers. People buying them expect quality and safety. Don't charge me $500 and then say "well you should have checked some lever."

Do better Britax.

Doesn't Consumer Reports actually test and review strollers?

I'm pretty sure they do, and if so I wonder what happened here.

You are aware that Consumer Reports is not the same as the Consumer Product Safety Commission - Consumer Reports is a non-profit that is not run by the government - at all?

Of course I am aware. I am also aware that CR has 100 times more impact that the CPSS, which is why I was wondering about their take on this.

NP - google is your friend.
https://www.consumerreports.org/jogging-strollers/what-you-need-to-know-if-you-have-a-bob-jogging-stroller/

Also this https://www.consumerreports.org/jogging-strollers/britax-jogging-stroller-settlement/

+1.

Market problem.

Market solution.

Uh no. That "market solution" only occurred due to government oversight, such that it is. The settlement was with the CPSC because the CPSC forced them to offer this.

Not true.

CR finds and reports on thousands of defective products before CPSC even know they exist.

That's why I am curios about CR and this stroller.

[Anonymous]

Has anyone actually READ the articles?

1. This relates to strollers that are more that 4 years old. BOB Has made the quick release so that it doesn’t slide out of the casing.

2. I don’t understand how babies are being ejected, if they are using the 5 point harness system that is PART OF THE STROLLER?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone actually READ the articles?

1. This relates to strollers that are more that 4 years old. BOB Has made the quick release so that it doesn’t slide out of the casing.

2. I don’t understand how babies are being ejected, if they are using the 5 point harness system that is PART OF THE STROLLER?

No one cares about facts or children.

Just give us something to attack Trump and the GOP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone actually READ the articles?

1. This relates to strollers that are more that 4 years old. BOB Has made the quick release so that it doesn’t slide out of the casing.

2. I don’t understand how babies are being ejected, if they are using the 5 point harness system that is PART OF THE STROLLER?

The baby could be really injured if the stroller flipped and parent landed on top of it (that's one of the actual accidents recounted).

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Anonymous wrote:OMG.. I have a BOB. I check the assembly before every use LIKE THE INSTRUCTIONS SAY TO.

I know, crazy, right?

I also position my child’s helmet before bike rides, on her forehead, even though the size of strap means I could position it on top of her head. I check my road bike quick release. I tighten my car seat straps. I even check the temperature of water coming from our taps!

I guess I’m just pissy because I’m in Canada, where I can no longer buy uncooked chicken fingers because people are too stupid to read cooking instructions, like stroller instructions.

Honestly, the most flameful thing in this thread is that there’s some weirdo Canadian trolling on a website called “DC Urban Moms” to make fun of parents whose children have been injured. I have secondhand embarrassment for you!

I agree!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone actually READ the articles?

1. This relates to strollers that are more that 4 years old. BOB Has made the quick release so that it doesn’t slide out of the casing.

2. I don’t understand how babies are being ejected, if they are using the 5 point harness system that is PART OF THE STROLLER?

I read the article. BOB fixed the problem, because they knew it was an issue, but they adamantly resisted a recall of existing strollers using the old design. The old design, by the way, that had a margin of error of less than half a turn of a little lever.

And in at least one case, the stroller flipped as a result of the front wheel coming off.

I really don't get why people are so invested in defending BOB and denigrating consumers here. There was a way to fix a known problem. And it's a problem if your product requires users to be 100 percent perfect every time. People make mistakes. They forget to check sometimes, or they don't turn the lever far enough. It happens. But people are so busy being judgmental that they take the side of a big corporation that doesn't give a rats-ass about them over government workers whose job is it to look out for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone actually READ the articles?

1. This relates to strollers that are more that 4 years old. BOB Has made the quick release so that it doesn’t slide out of the casing.

2. I don’t understand how babies are being ejected, if they are using the 5 point harness system that is PART OF THE STROLLER?

I read the article. BOB fixed the problem, because they knew it was an issue, but they adamantly resisted a recall of existing strollers using the old design. The old design, by the way, that had a margin of error of less than half a turn of a little lever.

And in at least one case, the stroller flipped as a result of the front wheel coming off.

I really don't get why people are so invested in defending BOB and denigrating consumers here. There was a way to fix a known problem. And it's a problem if your product requires users to be 100 percent perfect every time. People make mistakes. They forget to check sometimes, or they don't turn the lever far enough. It happens. But people are so busy being judgmental that they take the side of a big corporation that doesn't give a rats-ass about them over government workers whose job is it to look out for them.

They need to recall the brains of the people who can't follow instructions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone actually READ the articles?

1. This relates to strollers that are more that 4 years old. BOB Has made the quick release so that it doesn’t slide out of the casing.

2. I don’t understand how babies are being ejected, if they are using the 5 point harness system that is PART OF THE STROLLER?

Also, its not a 5- point. It is only a 3 point and thus with a serious crash kids a more likely to fall out or be injured.